I’ve recently started looking at jQuery as a replacement for the Prototype/Scriptaculous solution we have been using the last couple of years. My main reason for going this route is the great plugin repository for jQuery that has a ton of ready to use “widgets”. I’m also in need of a data grid [...]
It has been two weeks now since I purchased a “slice” form Slicehost and I can’t be more happier. If you don’t already know Slicehost is a VPS hosting provider that gained quite a bit of popularity in the Rails community when they first launched. I also believe they are one of the [...]
It has been a while since I have dealt with this, but we are in the process of converting an old Zope based site to run on a Ruby on Rails architecture. The old site stores all user profile images as blobs in the database. Going forward I was not sure if [...]
I have just finished the final touches on a user survey for a large enterprise web application that I help manage. This application has not had a user survey in two years and I’m looking forward to seeing the differences between our assumptions and the actual practice of our user community.
Here are some tips [...]
For those of you that have not used Agile development, I highly recommend you take a look at the online book Getting Real. Though it is written from the perspective of Ruby on Rails development, it offers solid principles on iterative process that can be used on a multitude of projects. In addition [...]
Based on what I have been hearing and seeing of the later half of 2007, I think the following trends will either hold and come about in 2008:
Interactive design will be at a premium
More and more community / crowd sourcing sites around health care & energy efficient / green tech will spring up
Agile development practices [...]
Recently I have seen a lot web apps use Adobe Flex to develop a rich UI. I had last looked at Flex when it was in its infancy. At the time it was pre beta and Flex was being positioned as a tool to build 3-D environments. I played with it some, [...]
Check out this excellent post by Moxie. I tried all three including attachment_fu. In the end I went with a user suggestion to check out upload_plugin and I chose to use that on my project. The reason being is documentation, documentation, documentation!!! Though I really liked FileColumn, I ran into [...]
People always seem to ask me about my recommendations on hosting companies when it comes to small and midsized businesses. Though needs can vary greatly from company to company, below are the hosts I have found to provide the best overall service.
Rackspace
ServInt
ServerBeach
I know that the knock on Rackspace is that it is expensive, but [...]
Anyone else out there trying to grapple with OpenID? Well you are not alone. I still haven’t implemented anything, but I like the concept and I’m hoping to add OpenID verification to one of my sites in the near future.
While conducting research, I came across this great write up by Dan Webb, The [...]
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