Do The Right Thing

Too often I am brought into projects long after they have been “completed” only to find they are void of any conventions or best practices I would consider part of “doing the right thing”. If you are a consultant or a company performing work for clients, do the right thing by your client. It’s much [...]

If you’re visiting my site for the first time you’ll probably notice my last post was from November of 2008. That’s great for both of us for two reasons. 1) You are likely on this page because I contacted you about a project posting on Craigslist, Elance or Guru. Why is this gap in blog [...]

I realize it’s been several months since I’ve posted an update, but I’ve been nose down in project since June. I am happy to announce two new sites now available; 1. HumTum.com – a cool dating website geared towards connecting people from around the world. 2. SitterScout.com – a great social network idea focused on [...]

I realized today it’s been nearly a month since I’ve posted an update to this blog. I blame my current projects and the additional time I’ve spent on professional development this past month.  I’ve taken quite a bit of time over the past month to pick apart and play around with the new features in [...]

Ok, so I don’t usually blog about PHP….well in this blog you’ll see zero previous posts about PHP….but I’ve been keeping tabs on a new PHP MVC framework called Akelos. What is intriguing to me about Akelos is it’s a direct port of the Rails framework for PHP. Now, for an avid Rails developer having [...]

As my last Rails project was drawing to a close and deployment tasks were closing in, it became apparent I’d have my work cut out for me when deploying each box. This project was in no way adhering to “the Rails way” with regards to database architecture(or anything else for that matter…..a topic for another [...]

Ok, so this is my first post of the year…..deal with it. Not much to report right now. I’m almost ready to switch my blog over to a custom Rails CMS in the near future and I’m gearing up this week to do some training on the latest version of Rails, fun. I always like [...]

If you’re like me, you have been happily developing your ruby projects connecting to an RDMS through unixodbc and rubyodbc in Mac OS X Tiger only to find it break in OS X Leopard without good reason. Well, after agonizing since October 29th I’ve compiled the necessary steps to get you back up and happily [...]