Nice article from New York Times Technology News regarding small merchants gaining a larger presence online. Bust Out currently does quite a bit of work in this area, most recently with several Shopify implementations. Drop us a line if you need any help doing anything similar. Cheers!
Read MoreThe DataMapper ORM framework is forging ahead and is now on version 0.2.3. In my previous DataMapper post I wrote about how to get started using the 0.1 release of DataMapper in Rails. Today, let’s look at some of what’s new installation-wise, as well as how well DataMapper is handling relationships between our model objects. [...]
Read MoreSeth 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 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 MoreI 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 [...]
Read MoreTwo interesting recent articles on the virtues of keeping things (products, projects, etc) small and simple. Be humble, think about your users, create great projects and better code.
Read MoreGreat article today in the San Francisco Chronicle that addresses some interesting aspects of project management, including some thought-provoking questions around estimation and bidding – frequent topics of conversation here at Bust Out. More on this later…
Read MoreCongratulations to all the folks over at Shopify for being chosen as a finalist for the Webware 100 Awards. Based on our recent implementation experience, I think the distinction is well-deserved. We’ll be sure to cast our votes.
Read MoreWe don’t often write about specific technologies here at Bust Out, as we tend to be fairly agnostic and pragmatic about such matters, but we recently sent a contingent off to Portland, OR to attend RailsConf 2007 and we are feeling pretty darn excited about the Rails framework and its future. What’s the cause of [...]
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