Hello world!

I’ve moved my website from GoDaddy.com to Dreamhost.com today. Its a superior hosting platform from a developer perspective. For one it’s far more flexible. More importantly GoDaddy’s websites are setup so when you login to your website with FTP, your home directory is the website root! That’s very bad from a security perspective. As developers we’re taught that some things should be outside of your website root, and GoDaddy made that impossible. Additionally, Dreamhost gives you SSH access and Subversion! What happened to the rest of my blog you might ask? Well, its funny. I did a database backup for my wordpress installation at GoDaddy before shutting off my hosting at GoDaddy. What I never noticed was a Export option in the Wordpress admin panel. In fact, it wasn’t until I was working on the configuration on the new Dreamhost version of the blog that I noticed it. so, I’m hoping to be able to do a database import with my backup file. That would be awesome! However, it might not be that easy. the Dreamhost version of wordpress is 2.5 where the GoDaddy version was much older. So we’ll see what happens. I need to do some research to see what my options are. Wish me luck.

Celebrity Sighting

As I was returning from my lunch at Pike Market today, I spotted a celebrity. This particular celebrity is beloved my millions of kids and adults alike. That was clearly demonstrated as they were walking through downtown Seattle, WA greeted by cheers of adoring fans calling out their name “Cookie Monster!”

Help Me Name My Company

I’m going to create a company to represent myself as a web developer in the next week or so. In the future, its likely I will have some employees. Because of that, I don’t want the company to be named after me. Besides I’m just not that vain. So I’ve been brainstorming, and I’ve come up with a few names that I like. I’m asking for your help, dear reader, to assist me in creating the best name. In addition if you any suggestions – please tell me. Express what you like or dislike in the comments below.

Biourban (pronounced Bee-YOUR-buhn)
Strummer Studios
Lime Blue Studios
Shank Piston
Mastodon Labs
Amber Chrome

Ok, so here’s my thoughts. I’m thinking the name doesn’t have to be descriptive of my business. A perfect example is Red Hat. The name Red Hat doesn’t infer that they are a Linux Distro. That association has been created by their marketing department. So this naming style opens up possibilities. I basically, am just thinking up words or phrases that sound cool together. I heard from a friend about an idea to name the company what you might name your kid. Full Disclosure: the name “Shank Piston” came from putting my first and last name into the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. It’s a silly tool that my twitter friends sent me, but i happen to like the output. Any name that sounds feminine doesn’t fit me. Androgynous names like Terry, Pat, and Jaime have the most flexibility. With that said, this feels like the wrong path One thing I’ve done intentionally is to avoid words that imply technology – systems, design, development, tech, web, net, and synergy. Those aren’t the only words, but they’re the most overused. Another thing I want to avoid is cheap sounding phrases/LOL speak like “websites 4 U”, “U Can Haz Website”, and “The Web R Us” . The message I’m trying to communicate is I want the name to stand out. Thanks in advance. I look forward to hearing your feedback.