Matt Prokes

Just a upcoming notice, I will be attending several conferences in the next 30 days. Some of them are business related, some are tech related but here is the the events I know for sure I will be at.

• February 22nd, Lean Startup Minnesota @ Joule 1200 Washington Ave S Minneapolis, MN
• March 16, Minneapolis Internet Marketing @ Kips Irish Pub
• March 4-6, No Fluff Just Stuff   Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington, 3900 American Boulevard West, Bloomington, MN, 55437
• March 3rd,  SumperNet @ Keller Williams Realty – 2680 Snelling Ave N # 100 – Roseville, MN 55113 – USA

Possibly: TC’s “Network Your Heart Out” Event @Thom Pham’s Wondrous Azian Kitchen

Thankx, Matt

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Sorry for anyone that was trying to access the site, but we were down for a while. No, there were not any major issues we simply just switched the blog off of a managed server I was paying for (mochahost) to our new set of quad core servers. These are the same servers that are running FindTechs right now. So long story short I had to do lots of investigation on how to correctly migrate the blog. Part of the problem is that the current wordpress migration tools do not carry over the images, themes, etc.

That was unacceptable since I wanted a true copy, so after some research I settled on a plugin that would correctly make the copy, and migrated. Even after the migration though there were still problems regarding the BIND mappings, and making sure the virtual host was set up correctly . We are all good now though, and back online! Yaay. Welcome back to anyone checking things out.

~matt

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The findtechs.com redesign is underway to be more commercially friendly. While the current design was technically nice, it was not commercially viable for communicating with the people who we need to communicate with. So as a result the site main page has been re-designed so far, I will also be re-doing the rest of the pages. The backend for findtechs is done, so it is simply a matter of migrating the current javascript to the new look and updating a few things.

We should be ready to go after that point, the site deadline wise is way past is point, and some core features were dropped, but one way or another we will get a release out there so we can start doing business already! One of the nice things is that the code is all custom, and the platform was designed around some very nice core concepts (scaling, open architecture, SOA oriented, very low technical debt). So I am excited to get it out there, and get cracking on things.

Hopefully in a couple weeks I can report that Webactive is in business!

~matt

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I went to the sumpernet! meetup last night, and it rocked! I was able to meet business professionals and aspiring professionals (like myself), talk about issues, and how to succeed in business and marketing. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to get into entrepreneurship. I learned tons about how people work, and get work done.

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