Dr. Egon Spengler pronounced the death of print in the 1984 hit comedy Ghostbusters, but he may have been a tad premature. We don't send "snail mail" letters and postcards as often as we used to, but … Read more about Send Real Printed Mail from FileMaker with Lob.com Integration
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for business. However, I’ve received several requests from people I do not know to connect to them on LinkedIn. I’m pretty open about LinkedIn connections because many … Read more about Identifying Fake LinkedIn Profiles – Be Careful
Many thanks to Donald Clark from FileMakerProGurus.com for this interview of LuminFire (formerly Cimbura.com) executives at the FileMaker DevCon 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. Gain insights into the … Read more about 2016 LuminFire Interview from DevCon
“Your Geospatial Destiny” was the theme of this year’s 26th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference held in Duluth, MN (#MNGISLIS). The LuminFire GIS team was there to speak, learn, network, and tour a … Read more about 26th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference
One of the benefits of using open source software like WordPress is that (if you choose) you can lend a hand to help make it better. That may mean contributing code, reporting bugs, testing releases, … Read more about WordPress Core Contributions
Xdebug is a very useful tool for debugging php problems when they arise. Getting it setup and working on your local environment can be a little tricky at times, but hopefully this guide makes things … Read more about How to configure Atom’s php-debug package to work with Xdebug on a Pressmatic site
I just recently (yesterday!) started testing Pressmatic for my local WordPress development. Up until now I've been running my own Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP servers which I installed using Brew by … Read more about Changing Database Versions in Pressmatic
Tell Your Story with GIS Cartography is the art and skill of making maps. It involves elements of design, story telling, statistics, math and countless other skills. This blog post won't make you a … Read more about Mapping Your Own Data
This last weekend many of our brilliant Cimbura.com team attended the annual WordCamp Minneapolis conference. WordCamps are a series of local conferences focused on all things Wordpress, … Read more about WordCamp Minneapolis 2016
There are two major factors to consider when selecting a basemap for your map: Functionality and Style. Picking a gorgeous basemap that makes your map unusable doesn't help anyone, and most visitors … Read more about The Basics of Basemaps
What does a Mapping Framework do? If you think of web maps as cars, as we discuss in Anatomy of a Web Map (the first of this 6 part series), a Mapping Framework is the engine. It is a JavaScript … Read more about Choosing a Mapping Framework
Web maps are like cars. It's easy to appreciate a nice looking web map, but most people don't need to know about everything that's going on under the hood. Just like when buying car, however, if you … Read more about Anatomy of a Web Map