Developers' Corner Posts
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... 2 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 »
Beware of Feature Creep
I like the term "feature creep", which is a software development term that is defined by UrbanDictionary.com as: "Generally the pro... 0 Comments | Read More »
Prototype and Script.aculo.us
I wanted to put up a post about Script.aculo.us a while ago, but for some reason have not yet. For those that are not familiar with ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Google's New Map Features Gives Me Hope
When you’re considered a leader in ecommerce services and search engines and Web services, it’s easy to force-feed users. For some t... 0 Comments | Read More »
When Patience is a Downfall...
If your car broke down on the highway, would you leave it there for weeks? If it was 12 below zero and the central heating in the ho... 0 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial Ideas?
It's about time I used this blog for something useful, like finding out what kinds of things our readers want to see Video Tutorials... 0 Comments | Read More »
When cool becomes cumbersome...
I like flashy web features as much as the next Internet-surfing junkie. I'm virtually married to the Web - it's where I rent my movi... 0 Comments | Read More »
Paying for Our Own Mistakes
As I write this, my arm hurts, my back hurts, my shin is black and blue... My back, neck and right hip? They all hurt. Sometimes I'm... 0 Comments | Read More »
CAPTCHA Killer
A few posts ago I mentioned that we had put in a CAPTCHA verification thingy on our article comments form. For those that are unfami... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Web 3.0 Browsers
We posted an article not too long ago that attempted to clarify some of the nomenclature being tossed around lately about "the Web 2... 0 Comments | Read More »
Put Customers at Ease by Customizing Error Pages
The dreaded "Page Not Found" error is only the most common error. I never understood why many of the big dogs ignore the fact that y... 0 Comments | Read More »
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