Capistrano 2.0 and Dreamhost

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I recently had the pleasure of deploying a few Rails applications to the FCGI funhouse that is Dreamhost, and just to make matters more interesting, I decided to do the deploys using Capistrano 2.0, rather than its better documented predecessor. After fumbling around a bit trying to translate various Capistrano 1.* recipes, as well as [...]

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A browser UI trick using setTimeout

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Recently, when working on a DHTML slideshow based on Prototype and script.aculo.us, I ran into a problem with JavaScript and updates to the page UI. I intended the portfolio code to do the following: hide the current image replace the current image with a new image fade in the new image However, in my first [...]

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Mimicry is the highest form of flattery

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Below are two screen shots. One is of the Bust Out Solutions website circa January 2007 when we were undergoing a website re-alignment to bring it to the state in which you see it now. The next screen shot is of advanceddigitalstudios.com (circa August 2007), a domain owned by Robert Clark for a company in [...]

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Worst website ever?

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A colleague of mine forward this site to me today: brainmind.com. We both agreed that it potentially wins the award for worst website. Obviously, the webmaster is not too concerned with information architecture, design, web standards, usability, or code optimization. The site was so bad I couldn’t stop looking at it, which maybe works in [...]

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Announcing rubinsteinphoto.com

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We’re pleased to announce the launch of rubinsteinphoto.com. Sara Rubinstein is a commercial photographer based in Minneapolis who now has a kickin’ website. The site has some sick and crazy JavaScript thanks to Bust Out partner Ted Chen, who used the Scriptaculous and Prototype libraries to create the image transition effect. Check out the site, [...]

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