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Magento 2 Extension for section.io
We're thrilled to be working with now-local company, section.io, to help out with a new Magento 2 extensions to display performance metrics. Here's a link to their...
Mercury Transit of the Sun
In case you didn't wake up yesterday and point a big camera lens directly at the sun, I went outside and captured Mercury transiting across the Sun: That little dot that looks like a spot is the planet Mercury. (That said, the sun is 93 million miles from here.) About...
Bear on our street in Boulder, Colorado
This evening, a few houses up from ours here in south Boulder, there was a bear hanging out in a neighbor's tree. I grabbed a camera and took a few images before the sun set. Enjoy! Tech specs: these were taken with a Canon 5D Mark III, using a 300 mm f/4 lens with 2x...
Happy Client Message
We had a client who had a site with issues... Our team was able to get it fixed quickly for them. Here's a screenshot of her thank you email...
Magento Imagine 2016 Recap
Last week I was at my fifth Magento Imagine conference, and as I've done for the past five years, I'm doing a recap of my experience there, inducing what's new, what's the same, and what to expect for the year to come. The big elements from the event...
Customer Paradigm launches new thermo-responsive design
Customer Paradigm today launched a new thermo-responsive site. Instead of just responding to the type of device (i.e. mobile, tablet and desktop), we've added a new dimension of responsivenes to our site: temperature. During initial testing, we found a 42%...
A few staff headshots from today
Here are a few Customer Paradigm staff photos we took earlier today in our studio. Some are retakes, and others are newer to the team. Enjoy! All were taken with a Canon 5D Mark III with an 85 mm lens at f/14, ISO 100. I used a black backdrop, and two Einstein 640s...
Photography Image Backup – Workflow
Today is Pi day - 3.14. Our team is celebrating with a lot of fun pies at the office. I've recently had a few people ask me about backup strategies when it comes to photography; I had someone who accidentally erased images during a photoshoot and couldn't get them...
Google Changes PPC Listings, Removes Right Hand Ads
Last week, Google made a pretty significant change to how ads are displayed for search results: They removed all of the right-hand ads from desktop search results: Instead, there are now up to four paid ads at the top of a search result, along with three text ads at...
Do you know if your site is *really* backed up?
I'm a bit paranoid about backing up data. Last week, a story made the news about a hospital that was attacked by ransomware, and how they had to pay $17,500 to unscramble patient records and other data. A better backup strategy might have helped. (The hospital did...