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Behind the Scenes: My New eCommerce Plugin
eCommerce has been something that I’ve wanted to focus a lot of my energy on. I’ve been running eCommerce sites for the last 5 years. In an inbound or content marketing perspective, I understand the pre-sale side of eCommerce and am always looking at tools that can help earn a sale quicker and with the…
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Front-end Developers Tool: CSS Lint
For any inspiring front-end developers reading my blog, I want to give you a free tool to use. It’s called CSS Lint. CSS Lint points out problems with your CSS code.
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How to Increase your Local Development Time with Bash Scripting
Over the years, I’ve written about my development environment. I’ve gone from using the internal LAMP stack that comes with Mac OS X to using MAMP, and now back again. Some of my recent work has forced me back out of MAMP and into the internal LAMP stack of Mac OS X. Of course there’s…
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7 Easy Ways to Improve Your SEO on Your WordPress Site
Have you recently started a blog but started to notice you aren’t getting the traffic you wanted? Are you not getting the traffic you want? Today we’re going to take a look at 7 easy ways to improve your SEO right off the bat! Submit Your Site to Google, Bing, and Yahoo I’m sure this…
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Objective Resource for Faster iPhone Development
I recently came across Objective Resource for developing iPhone applications that talk with a Rails backed website. According to the site, ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity…
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Ruby Vulnerabilities
An Apple Product Security technician has identified multiple vulnerabilities with Ruby, which if exploited could be used in denial of service attacks. It does not have to be just Mac OS X that this afects. It looks like it’s all versions based on the official post from the Ruby development team.?? To find out what…
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To busy to complete…
So I’ve been getting a little busy at work lately, and while I’d like to really take you guys through a ToDo list tutorial, I just don’t have the time right now to work on that, while learning Rails 2.0, and then working on getting a ToDo list app working as well.?? Rather than leave…
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Todo list application with Rails 2.0!
I’ve recently taken a new position doing Rails applications full time (which I’m definitely excited about) however, between myself and the other developer, we’ve decided to go right up to Rails 2.0.2. This of course did not fit with me very well because I haven’t done rails development full time yet, and what rails apps…
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Ruby on Rails Instructions Released for Leopard
Dan over at Hivelogic released an updated guide for installing Ruby, Rails Gems, Rails, and MySQL. Check out the article here. If there’s anything else that you need to install (like RSpec, Capistrano, SVN) you can do that with the following commands. To install RSpec just type: $ gem install rspec To install Capistrano, type:…
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Switching Hosts
Recently I started a quest for looking for some sort of a dedicated hosting or at least something I could rely on for Rails hosting. I was hosting my projects and sites on DreamHost, but got tired of the shared hosting and the minimal support from them so it was clearly time to start the…