Developers' Corner Posts
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 »
Mistake #23: Ignorance of Technology
With the big guys building and offering once exclusively online apps to run offline, it makes me wonder about the future of the onli... 0 Comments | Read More »
Page Caching in Rails
The first type of caching content in Rails that I wanted to post about is called Page Caching. When using page caching, you are tell... 0 Comments | Read More »
Picking up the pieces - a job for any owner...
While I’m not much of a gambler, I’m going to bet that a good portion of small business owners aren’t privy to the methods used by t... 0 Comments | Read More »
Caching in Ruby on Rails
As I mentioned, I’ll probably be doing quite a few more Ruby on Rails posts here since I have been wrapping up a new application tha... 0 Comments | Read More »
File Uploads with Ruby on Rails
I thought I would do a quick post about file uploads using Rails, since I recently had to create an application that would allow use... 0 Comments | Read More »
There's no such thing as "free"...
Small businesses often face a financial dilemma - we need tools to do the job, but the budget doesn’t leave room for much acquisitio... 0 Comments | Read More »
I Learn - Even from the TSA
On a recent trip to Upstate New York, the best available flight tossed me through JFK in New York City as a layover. I was fearful h... 0 Comments | Read More »
Website Design for the iPhone
Now that the iPhone is out there and in full-swing, there is an interesting set of challenges that web designers are going to face m... 1 Comments | Read More »
REST Architecture
Sweet, more acronyms. I like this one though, since it is only three words for a four letter acronym. Figure that one out. Either wa... 0 Comments | Read More »