AJ Morris
Product Coach and Consultant
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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…
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So Your Got a Mac for Christmas…
This time of year there always seems to be a slew of people asking me about what Mac software I’m using, if there’s some quality open source apps to use, etc. Since it’s Christmas/New Years time, I figured I’d put together a list software I use for a variety of tasks. So without further ado,…
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Rails 2.0 Released!!
Rails 2.0 was released on Friday!!?? Thanks to all the hard work from the core developers and the hundreds of contributors.?? Without them we couldn’t have had some features like Active Record: Performance, Active Record: Sexy migrations, Action Pack: HTTP Loving, Action Pack: Resources, and so many many more!!!?? Check out the full blown post…
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Gmail 2.0 Announces Colored Labels
If you have gotten them yet, you should be. Today Gmail released color-coded labels. I think this is something we’ve been waiting for some time to get. I have been playing around with them a little bit today and think that it’s really cumbersome and easy to use. One thing I wish they would have…
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Agile Web Development at Startup Weekend
Today I thought I would talk about agile web development with ruby on rails and how we implemented it during Startup Weekend. This past weekend I went to my first Startup Weekends (hope it’s not the last) and had a group of about 10-20 developers work together for a weekend to create a product in…
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DC Startup Weekend Wrapup
So I’m sure most of you by now have seen that DC Startup Weekend and come and gone. We are the third weekend in a row to have a working product in BETA form by Midnight Sunday night. It was an awesome feeling! We had uStreamed the moment that we went live and was glad…
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DC Startup Weekend Here I Come!
Well it’s Thursday night and I’m getting ready to head out to the airport so I can make my way to DC and get ready for the weekend.?? Our final 3 ideas for the weekend are: Restaurant-Customer Matchup System Job Posting Site Condo Buildings Social Network There’s two that I’m voting on happening.?? One thing…
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DC Startupweekend
Uploaded with Skitch! So I just wanted to remind people that I’m still planning on going to the DC Startup Weekend. There’s some great ideas so I’m really looking forward to what other ideas get added. Check out the list of already growing cities that have committed to hosting a Startup Weekend.
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Look What Jing Can Do!
Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it???s Command +…
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SnagIt Batch Conversion – Watermark
So tonight I created a video for my friend RobinYap on how to add watermarks to tons of files using SnagIt‘s Batch conversion process. Take a look!
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WordPress.com Tutorials have Arrived!
I am pleased to post these tutorials that I have been working on for the last few weeks. These are something that took a lot of time to do since Camtasia Studio was giving me a little problems and then my hosting solution had to change over as well. I have decided to post these…
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Tumblr and Twitter!
I had a friend email me a couple of cool sites the past few days and wanted to share them with you. First off is Twitter. Twitter is a social networking service that allows members to inform each other about what they are doing and what they think. It allows users to send message via…
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WordPress Tutorials Update
So I had a few people ask about the WordPress tutorials and I wanted to let everyone know that they are done, but I ran into a few snags with getting everything working right with Camtasia Studio, which is what I recorded them in.? I think I have everything working ok now and I will…
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WordPress – Just Another WordPress Blog??
Today I thought I would talk about WordPress and the creator of WordPress. WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is the official successor of b2cafelog and has a thriving user and developer community. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, so WordPress is…