We’re currently involved in two very cool projects for Best Buy, building one Django application on that will run on Google App Engine and a Ruby on Rails site that will run on Amazon EC2. We plan to do a comparison between the two cloud systems just to describe our experiences with the two. If [...]
Read MoreFor some odd reason, I always forget the stupid syntax for mysqldump. There are a bunch of options that you can use with this program, but if you just want to grab a simple dump of your database, use this command: mysqldump -u[user] -p[password] [databasename] > dumpfile.sql
Read MoreWith all the social networking sites out there it’s nice to see some sort of effort to move towards standardization. Google’s OpenSocial is a set of standard APIs for social websites. The list of sites implementing it is impressive, including Orkut, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
Read MoreNice 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 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 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 MoreWhat?! You’re doing what? Yup, I’m writing about a Microsoft product. Today Microsoft unveiled Surface, a computer that uses the tabletop as its high-resolution display, recognizes objects placed on the surface and skips the traditional keyboard and mouse in favor of fingers on the screen. It offers a new way for humans to interact with [...]
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