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Local Developer Events in Orlando
Even though BarCampOrlando is a few months behind us, there’s still plenty to do this summer for us developers. It seems like in the past 2 years or so more and more events are springing up in town — exciting stuff. Finding new events can sometimes be a little tricky though. There’s a few ways [...]
A New Look at Development
One thing on my mind more and more recently was the idea of getting a job in what I do during my part time. While working at Westgate much of my spare time at home I’d been slowly learning Ruby on Rails, and liking the core concepts as well as the Ruby language in general. [...]
Groups know better than Google
How do you filter out what’s important to you? For knowledge that flows towards you, you have a lot more control over this. Through our feed readers we have precise control over what we follow, and through email we can filter out spam and label all mail automatically. When we go out searching for something [...]
Getting Started with Slicehost
There comes a time in everyones life when they have to setup a linux computer from scratch. OK, so maybe not, but if you’re a web programmer you might well be faced with the problem of putting out a colocated server, just a VPS where you have full control over the box. With full control [...]
9 Rules Accepting Submissions Today Only
If you’ve ever noticed that little leaf on my sidebar, you’re probably familiar with 9 Rules. 9 Rules is a community of bloggers focused on, you guessed it, 9 Rules. These are available in their about page, but the focus is to Love what you do and Never stop learning. If you’re even reading this [...]
A Good Way to Catalog Movies?
Why is so difficult to find a good, feature rich way to catalog movies? It seems like there are two camps applications focus on — either ownership or viewership, but few applications do both well. On one side there are applications like Delicious Library that allow you to scan in barcodes with a webcam (very [...]
Adogo Meeting Tomorrow!
Interesting in going to an Adogo meeting? Tomorrow night we have two great talks — Maxim Porges with his cf.objective() talk, “Flex - No Frameworks Required”, along with Steve Gongage presenting a Flex ap he’s worked on with some tips and suggestions from his experience. It should be a fun, Flex filled night. If you’re [...]
Design Books for Developers
Designing the Obvious is a book I ran into at Books a Million a few months ago. Usually when I head out to bookstores I grab a handful of books and end up scanning over them for tips, maybe reading a few relevant chapters, then putting it back. Very rarely do I end up reading [...]
Harnessing GameFaqs with Ruby on Rails and Hpricot
One of the things that’s most annoying when making sites that rely on external data is keeping them in sync. Although this usually means importing some sample data during development, eventually you’ll have to do it the right way. This evening I hit that point on a project where I needed to get a list [...]
CSS Naked Day #3
Once again it’s CSS Naked Day, a time to strip your site bare and see how good it looks without all that CSS. If you’re using Wordpress, you can grab the CSS Naked Day Plugin and not have to worry about disturbing your layouts once the day is through. So far I’ve been extremely happy [...]
