Seth Godin on CSS. Not sure what to make of this to be honest. Wonder what sparked his desire to suddenly blog about it? Regardless, Seth: we here at Bust Out couldn’t agree more. Have your web team read this book, or this one, or this one. We like them all. Cheers!
Read MoreThought provoking article about the square peg, round hole syndrome. Oftentimes it makes sense to do what you know, as long as it works of course. It’s nice to see someone explore, even in a restrospective, the many facets that go into making a particular technology decision.
Read MoreI was doing some research today on using the acts_as_ferret plugin for an upcoming Bust Out site, when I quite accidentally stumbled upon this interesting post regarding how terrible and misleading the plugin apparently is. The tone certainly seems disproportionate to the offense. And I’m no enterprise search architect, but I understand that distributing an [...]
Read MoreNote: See an updated posting for local web development on OS X Leopard → By default, Mac OS X ships with an installation of the Apache web server. If you’re a web designer or developer, this is a great tool to help you develop websites locally, increasing development speed and improving your quality of life. [...]
Read MoreI’ve been tracking progress on the DataMapper ORM framework for a little while now and was pleased to see it moved recently to a shiny new site. To celebrate the progress, I decided to write a little bit about how to get started using DataMapper in a Rails application. The DataMapper ORM derives its name [...]
Read MorejQuery UI was released Sunday night. The demos look pretty nice and quite similar to some of the work Bust Out has been doing recently for some photography and design sites. I’m looking forward to see where the jQuery team take this library, as well as the effects this release might have on some of [...]
Read MoreI recently ported an existing Rails site to the Radiant CMS as our client wanted changes more frequently that initially anticipated. The good news is that the port went well. Radiant is a nice system. But I did struggle just a wee-bit. So, as I typically don’t do front-end stuff at Bust Out, I figured [...]
Read MoreSmall Capistrano tidbit. If you see the following error when running cap deploy (or setup for that matter): (Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory – /tmp/501/SSHKeychain.socket), try using the following command: unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK. I think Capistrano may just be picking up an SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable set by some prior ssh-agent that is potentially no longer [...]
Read MoreIndeed.com provides data on job trends based on information from millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. I decided to check out a few jobs to see which direction the trends are going. I think I found my calling. I’m gonna be a monkey.
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