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Bringing Augment Reality to Fredericksburg Academy

Bringing Augment Reality to Fredericksburg Academy

One of the coolest developments of Reclaim Hosting running our own coworking space in Fredericksburg has been how we can connect in interest ways with people that cross our paths. Last year I had an eye to get a 3D printer and build out some semblance of a makerspace (that's

Powerful Moments in VR

Powerful Moments in VR

There are certain moments for me growing up where my relationship to technology hits a milestone and I think "woah, this is something special". Building my first PC in my parent's kitchen and booting it up for the first time. Standing in the Apple Store in NYC holding an iPhone

The Goodrich Archives

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The Goodrich Archives

Growing up one of the constant staples of any family experience that involved relatives was my uncle Ted carrying a camcorder around. That's right, he was that guy that always seemed to be recording during holidays, birthdays, vacations, and any other trips we were on. My family was also very

Archiving Domains 2019 Presentations

Archiving Domains 2019 Presentations

During the process of preparing for our second Domains conference the question came up as to whether we would do any recordings. This was not something we tackled in 2017 the first time around and honestly, there can often be so many moving parts that it diminishes the experience for

More PHP Updates

Traditionally Reclaim Hosting (like many hosts I'm sure) has trailed a bit behind on pushing bleeding edge versions of PHP for our clients. Maybe that's a symptom of how much of the web still has a ways to go in terms of compatibility, but we want to start pushing things

A Stream of One's Own

A Stream of One's Own

Title stolen ruthlessly from Jim Groom. In my last post about Reclaim Video I talked about how a future goal was to setup a live stream camera to serve as remote viewing of movies played in the space given we now have the ability to control most of the room

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Hosting Profile: Siteground

If you are a regular reader of this blog, it may strike you as super odd for the cofounder of a web hosting company to be profiling competitors. However I think market research and understanding what others in the field are doing, their strengths and their weaknesses, is incredibly healthy

Celebrating Imagination

Celebrating Imagination

My family and I just returned from a fairly last minute trip down to Florida to visit Disney World. It's our second time going and sometimes I wonder if I get more out of it than my 8 year old, but it's been 4 years since she had gone and

Reclaim Video Telepresence

Reclaim Video Telepresence

If there were ever a defining theme to this blog and my professional career, it's that I'm a tinkerer at heart. I love experimentation and pushing on the edges of what's possible. I grew up fascinated with the game Mouse Trap and putting together Rube Goldberg machines. This extended to

Smash TV Control Panel

Smash TV Control Panel

As the work continues on Smash TV I can quickly see that this will be a very special game to me. I'm learning a ton (probably a common theme in these blog posts) and all the sweat and hours I've spent just heighten the anticipation of getting to play the

Joust upgrades

This is a short post just to document a few small upgrades to our Joust cabinet. Shortly after we got it we got a 131 RAM error which can mean a variety of things given it's the first RAM chip in sequence. Some research pointed to a potential power issue

Square Pegs in Round Holes

Square Pegs in Round Holes

I've been tackling various parts to the Smash TV restore project at once and the nice thing about it is that when I get bored with one thing or need to do some research I can always step away from that and find 10 other areas I need to eventually

Centipede High Scores

Centipede High Scores

Since this blog has become All Reclaim Arcade All The Time #noregrets I wanted to return to the very first repair I did on our first game last summer. Jim and I had travelled down to Richmond to pick up a Centipede in beautiful condition and brought it back to

Smash TV: The Future is Now

Smash TV: The Future is Now

I've hinted at my goal of finding a good project piece on the arcade front that I could try my hand at restoration work. I've never considered myself much of a handyman but between various small projects at CoWork and smaller repairs with the games we own I've gotten more

Two is company, Four is a party

Two is company, Four is a party

It began innocently enough, I honestly hadn't intended to take it this far. In fact, Doctor, I enjoy my weekends and had no plans for such an excursion. As I start to get my hands dirty with arcade repair I've had my eyes out for a potential project cabinet to

Clearing out table rows across databases in WordPress Multisite

I've been doing some optimizing of databases on a very large (32k site) WordPress Multisite that currently is split using MultiDB into 256 databases. The size of the databases seemed abnormally large and upon closer inspection I found a lot of rows in the options table for each site that

Arcade Repair and the DIY Aesthetic

Arcade Repair and the DIY Aesthetic

As we've continued to add to the collection of arcade games at Reclaim Video/CoWork it was inevitable that we would either need to find someone good at repairing these machines or learn to do it ourselves. I think you can probably imagine what side of that coin I landed

A vision for making at Reclaim HQ

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A vision for making at Reclaim HQ

It's no secret that one of the true highlights of my time at the University of Mary Washington was working with George Meadows of the College of Education and Rosemary Arneson in the library to build the ThinkLab Makerspace. There are few things that were able to spark and capture

Commons in a Box comes to Reclaim Hosting

Commons in a Box comes to Reclaim Hosting

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Commons In A Box project to bring an automated installer to the Reclaim Hosting platform. This follows on the heals of their 1.1.0 release which introduced the concept of "packages" that allow for different community types to

Coming PHP Updates

PHP has had a rather weird history of version updates and the timing surrounding them. You can see a timetable of version release dates and their subsequent active and security support here with the graph below In addition to the rather confusing naming convention of going from 5.6 to

Honest Pricing for All

Reclaim Hosting recently celebrated it's 5th birthday in late July, and during that 5 years we've only had to increase the cost of an account 1 time as a result of adding WHOIS protection by default to all accounts which came at a cost (which Jim wrote about here). As

Link Sharing through Tiny Tiny RSS

When Google Reader kicked the bucket I used Fever for awhile but had concerns when the developer decided to stop focusing on it and looked around for an alternative. There are several hosted services out there like Feedly and NewsBlur that seem nice, but I liked the idea of something

App Release: Big Picture Calling Card

App Release: Big Picture Calling Card

Reclaim Hosting has long been a big fan of the work that Alan Levine is doing with SPLOTs (Smallest Possible learning...object...tools? Who knows what it actually stands for). The idea, born out of the work Alan was doing with Brian Lamb's group at TRU, was to make simple

Today

I recently got back from a lovely weeklong vacation in Myrtle Beach where amongst all the relaxing I got nostalgic while showing some old DTLT Today videos to a friend. Right on the heels of that I read Jim's post about Reclaim's 5 year anniversary and while doing some digging

The Next App: Nextcloud

The Next App: Nextcloud

You may have noticed in my last blog post a bit of a tease in that I've become a bit more comfortable recently with building installers. Of course not every application is going to be compatible with a cPanel environment or work well in the context of automating the install,