Recently, at LinuxFest 2019, Rob presented on Node-RED. Here is an interview with Rob about what this is all about, and a link to the Youtube video recording. Here is what he covered: Connecting to a Raspberry Pi’s GPIO for digital I/O. Connecting to Google Home and Google Assistant for voice I/O. Connecting to Slack…
Myself and Richard will be presenting at the BC Tech Association next Thursday. We will be sharing our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system montioring tools to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our model. Learn why this important for any business and team, and what happens if…
In Summer 2018, our Crafty Penguins team visited the Open Source Summit here in Vancouver BC. Here are some gleanings of “what’s cool” from the post-event journal notes from the sessions we attended and found interesting. Lots of buzzwords in here! The following key takeaways were provided by Richard, Rob, and Curtis. Linux Keynote conversation…
Today is World Penguin Day! As our Crafty Penguins company name is obviously derived from Penguins, and particular Tux who is the Linux Mascot, we are giving these lovely birds some homage today. Crafty Penguins is the brand of the Linux professional services division of Kerkhoff Technologies Inc. Riddle provided by my 9-year old son:…
When it comes to a money-producing website, speed and reliability do matter. The era of 33k dialup when visitors would patiently wait a minute for a site to load are LONG gone. As we help clients to improve user experience on their WordPress websites and use WP ourselves, we wanted to share some of our…
For the first half of March 2019, we were in the Spotlight with the BC Tech Association. Click through to read the interview, including a specific interview with yours truly.
This news is almost a year old already, but still worth sharing as not many people have heard about it. There is ginormous amount of tech news out there! Microsoft has always pushed Windows as the O/S for all devices, from super computers down to small devices using their new Windows 10 IoT Core edition.…
Our team is excited to both attend and sponsor the Friday Night Board Games Night event at LinuxFest Northwest, which will be held again at Bellingham Technical College (WA state) on April 26 – 28, 2019. Click through to https://lfnw.org/ for details and to register. It’s actually FREE to attend (tickets are optional) due to donations, event…
The videos from the recent Chilliwack.Tech/Next event have been posted, including Richard’s presentation on ChatOps. It’s very fast paced due to the 30 minute time limit for each technology demo. The Chilliwack.Tech/Next event was held at the Black Box Theatre at the University of the Fraser Valley Chilliwack campus on Saturday November 17, 2018. Attendees experience an action-packed…
In the rush to create web applications and sites that look snazzy and are functional, something that often gets overlooked is basic user experience in regards to performance. Here are some questions to ask: Could my Google organic search ranking be low because my site is so slow? When somebody clicks a search result (either Organic…
