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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Take back your day with these 5 productivity tips
Have you ever had a coworker email you and then a few moments later send you an instant message in Slack or whatever chat tool you use? It happens. And more often than you think. Research from Gloria Mark from the University of California Irvine, who has studied multitasking, interruptions and workplace habits for the…
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2018 Goal Setting
I’ve never been a big fan of setting year long goals. Especially when you consider that many people don’t provide regular checkins on those goals. Throughout my career, I have worked at countless companies and with countless managers, all who helped set goals, but did so in a yearly fashion. What I found through those…
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My Top 8 Books Every Technology Business Leader, Manager, Entrepreneur Should Read
While goals are likely the first thing you think of when you start a new year, I always find myself looking at new books to read. I always have a list of books that I need to read. Some of them have been on there for quite awhile, yet others have only recently been added.…
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2017 Year in Review
As 2017 comes to a close today, I’m reminded of all the things I managed to accomplish this year. Currently, my lovely wife and infant (I’ll refuse to call her a toddler until she’s 2), are taking a nap. I’m watching/listening to a movie. After seeing a number of year in review posts, I decided…
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It’s not you, it’s me. A struggle to blog regularly
It has been a few years since I have hit publish on a blog post, at least on this blog. 2017 is the year to change that. There are over 100 unfinished, unpublished posts, sitting in my drafts, waiting for my attention to be edited, curated, even finished, before I am able to hit publish…
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Using Hidden Fields with Gravity Forms
I was working with a client awhile back and was asked if it were possible to build an employee referral form that referred employees to the company. I had the following as some of the business logic for the task. Employee needed to have their own URL. Anyone going to the URL did not need…
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Using Headway’s Content Block to Create Nathan Barry’s Content Area
In the last of this series we’re going to be looking at Nathan Barry’s content area. The one thing that I really like about his content area is that it matches mine in many ways. It actually was one of my influences when I was doing my redesign. I had two sites that really influenced…
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Using Headway’s Content Block to Create StudioPress’ Modern Portfolio Content Area
One of the biggest features that I get asked by clients is that they want a great way of showing a portfolio on their site. Studio Press’ Modern Portfolio theme does just that. Whether you are a photographer or a designer, this theme can really make your artwork shine. Well you don’t have to buy…
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Using Headway’s Content Block to Create iThemes’ Cohen Theme’s Content Area
Headway’s Content Block is quite versatile. Hopefully this series is showing just that. In today’s video I’m going to show you how to go through breaking down iThemes’ Cohen theme’s content area and show you how to create it with Headway’s Content Block. iThemes creates some really impressive themes for their Builder framework. There’s definitely…
