Developers' Corner Posts
Rails 2.0.2 Defaults to SQLite3
As some of you may have noticed since updated your Rails gems to the new 2.0.2 version, there have been some changes to the defaults... 0 Comments | Read More »
Accessiblity Information
So I have been banging my head against a wall lately trying to figure out how exactly an ecommerce merchant, or anyone for that matt... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Part V
You’re reading Part Five of a series. For clarity and flow, start at the beginning. Names in this article have been changed. She wa... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Part IV
When employees know you are easily manipulated, just how far will they go? She was in another state, and I finally realized I had no... 0 Comments | Read More »
Rails 2.0 Has Been Released!
I'm certainly not the first person to put this information out there, but for anyone that has been following this blog for Rails inf... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Part III
Your employee is your best friend, and your entire family loves her to death. The only problem is, you've got a business to run. For... 0 Comments | Read More »
Lightbox Gone Wild
Recently I have been working on our new website, and one of the interface challenges that I have been facing has been modal windows,... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Part II
When you’ve forged a beautiful friendship with someone who works for you, at what point do you realize the separation of business an... 0 Comments | Read More »
Using iFrames in xHTML 1.0 Strict
Just kidding… you can’t. But it’s a good title for a blog post since if you run into the problem that I ran into, you probably searc... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Part I
Every business owner needs to ask the question: Are the people I’ve surrounded myself with the best fit for my company? For nearly e... 0 Comments | Read More »
Browser Compatibility Blues (and also triumphs)
Today is a rainy day on the Oregon coast, probably the fifth or sixth in a row. Just the kind of day that you want to be going throu... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Preface
I’m back from a two-month haitus, armed with new mistakes from which you can learn. My only regret is that they are my own mistakes,... 0 Comments | Read More »
Rails acts_as_ferret Plugin
There is a Rails plugin that I have been playing with since reading some stuff about it on RailsEnvy that is called acts_as_ferret. ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Mac OS X Leopard, The Monday Morning After
I had to do it. I have been looking forward to the new version of OS X for some time, and I as pretty excited on Friday when a shiny... 0 Comments | Read More »
Expiring Cached Content in Rails - Part 2
Well, back to the caching stuff for Rails. The first method I wanted to tackle in this post is the use of cache sweepers to clear ca... 0 Comments | Read More »
iPhone Diversion
Sorry about this, I know that I was supposed to put a post about expiring caches in Rails, and I will. I have been busy with other t... 0 Comments | Read More »
Expiring Cached Content in Rails - Part 1
Well, we've covered various ways to cache content in our Rails application, primarily with the goal of relieving the number of queri... 0 Comments | Read More »
Fragment Caching in Rails - Part 2
In my last post, I talked about fragment caching in Rails in terms of caching entire actions from a controller, or what is called Ac... 0 Comments | Read More »
Hosting Issues: Would you have to rebuild? A Must Read...
Every once in a while I've got to put aside all the niceties and be a professional you-know-what. I don't like it, and issues with s... 0 Comments | Read More »
Fragment Caching in Rails - Part 1
In my last post, I talked about fragment caching in Rails in terms of caching entire actions from a controller, or what is called Ac... 0 Comments | Read More »
