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If It's Too Good -- It's A Scam

Full Disclosure: I went looking for the best price and got exactly what I was willing to pay for. This is a true story. I changed th... 0 Comments | Read More »

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The Blurring Line Between Plugins and Gems

Now that there is something called gem dependencies in Rails, which refers to the ability to specify what gems a Rails application r... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Rails ECommerce App

Just a quick note that if you're thinking about starting a new ecommerce shop, or thinking about moving your current store to Ruby o... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Multiple Attachments in Rails

Creating intuitive interfaces can be challenging, particularly when it comes to uploading files such as images or attachments. Suppo... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Hosted Solutions Avoid Overkill

Selecting a software package to run your new online business can be a daunting task, to say the least. The enormous selection (over... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Quit Hiding From The Customers

Company, fall in!!! At ease folks. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em (and if you don’t see any "Don’t Smoke Here" signs) Now, listen up ... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Google's 404 Widget

There is a pretty cool new tool available recently to webmasters that are using Google's Webmaster Tools, which is still in it's exp... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Visual Shopping

My last post was about "thinking outside the cart" and innovative shopping cart UIs. In that same vibe, I'd like to point you to h... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Back that Data Up!

If you’ve ever had a computer crash, you know it can be a devastating experience, both for you personally and for your business. Kee... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Google Suggest Goes Prime Time

I just noticed this yesterday, although it may have been around for a few days, but it appears that Google has implemented it's Sugg... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Search Engines And URL Redirects

We recently came across an interesting issue with the search engines during our recent launch, which was caused by something that I ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Saving on Software

If you've ever had to purchase software, you've probably debated it and then either bitten the bullet or gone without. Software is E... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Adobe's Scene7 On-Demand

Nobody knows how difficult it can be to keep track of digital assets, such as product images and spec documents, more than online st... 4 Comments | Read More »

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Getting Social at Github

Version control is something that developers are going to have to embrace eventually. Whether it is to automate repetitive tasks, as... 0 Comments | Read More »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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