Developers' Corner Posts
Thinking outside the cart
At my day job, I'm not just a Ruby on Rails developer, I'm also UI designer and User Experience guru. In fact, I got started in this... 0 Comments | Read More »
Amazon Simple Storage Service
The story is simple, and probably much more common than I would have thought. You need more disk space on your web hosting account, ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Rails 2.1
If you haven’t heard by now (and there’s no excuse if you haven’t), Rails 2.1 was released last month at RailsConf in Portland. So w... 1 Comments | Read More »
Testing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7?
After you get your store back from your e-commerce design and programming company, who performed a 100 point QA inspection, what is ... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Cox Box - The skewed view of ecommerce
It’s not easy, being a person who remembers Julius LaRosa, and trying to fit in with the MySpace crowd. It is hard for me to think i... 0 Comments | Read More »
My First Rails Plugin
Well, now that we are wrapping up the final details of our new website, and have pushed it into production, I can get back to bloggi... 0 Comments | Read More »
Natural Date Parsing
Sorry for the delay since my last post, but we have been wrapping up the final details of our new website, which is due to launch so... 0 Comments | Read More »
Are You Over-Paying on Phone Bills?
Not all Mistakes That Kill refer to customer service and store-end operations. The costs of doing business also affect the overall &... 0 Comments | Read More »
Merchant Account Charge Amount Restrictions
When seeking a merchant account, it's important to know the details - especially when it comes to limits on how much money you can a... 1 Comments | Read More »
ADA in the Courts
This will be a very quick post, but one that relates to something that I am very interested in, which is the enforcement of the Amer... 0 Comments | Read More »
Animated Load Image Time Saver
Every developer looks for ways to save time and do things more efficiently, and I am no exception. That’s why I wanted to post about... 0 Comments | Read More »
Handle File Uploads Easily in Rails
Recently I have been working with file uploads quote a bit in Ruby on Rails. In the past I have struggled through the process of all... 0 Comments | Read More »
Two Birds With One Stone
I wrote a post a while back about the Web 3.0, and how in my opinion such nomenclature could be defined as "the emergence of inter-r... 0 Comments | Read More »
My Renewed Affinity for Miva Merchant
MIVA, Inc. nearly ran the Miva Merchant shopping cart right into the ground. The new owners are like a breath of fresh air. Those w... 0 Comments | Read More »
Useful Rails Plugins
In the process of developing our new site using Ruby on Rails I have come across quite a few plugins that I thought I would share. O... 0 Comments | Read More »
Source Code Theft is Not Harmless
In a quest to save time and money, it's not uncommon for online store owners to follow the suit of many personal site authors - find... 0 Comments | Read More »
Lack of Payment Methods = Lost Sales
You may find reconciling the books simpler, or think saving on transaction and discount fees makes you financially smarter, but if y... 0 Comments | Read More »
Rails Acts_As_State_Machine Plugin
I realize that I haven't been posting as much recently, and one of the reasons is that we are getting down to the final build stages... 0 Comments | Read More »
Use CAPTCHA Effectively for Product Specs & More
With the ever-growing need to provide product-hyping data sheets and other downloadable features, store owners are recognizing ways ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Fact vs Hype: You'd Better Be Sure
Detailed product descriptions and key feature listings are essential for any online store. They help sell the product and give onlin... 0 Comments | Read More »
