Harmony is a hosted content management system by the talented folks at orderedlist. It’s built with developers, designers and their respective clients in mind. I know what you’re thinking, “no way they pulled that off elegantly”. Well, I’m afraid they did. They pulled it off quite brilliantly actually.
I learned something very valuable at my current gig as a manager at a local convenience store. People learn a certain way to get things accomplished and that is how they will continue to accomplish pretty much everything. They often continuing down the same path even though it leads no where. It begs the question [...]
Web design is almost not even a real industry without Adobe Photoshop. I mean seriously, think about it. You can’t walk into any web designer’s office/workspace without seeing at least a trial of Photoshop. It’s a staple of web design. Well, a staple in any creative field for that matter. After all these years, I’ve [...]
Software developers often have to wear multiple hats in the midst of time constraints, small teams and lack of support manpower. So it’s no secret that software developers naturally aren’t very good at providing support to users. As one who has been on both sides of the fence, it only makes to describe what users [...]
It’s no secret that I once was a decent web designer. I loved everything about it from conception to development. But my wings were eventually clipped because it became more about the race (aka career) and not the craft. Needless to say, I haven’t designed much of anything as of late and the things I [...]
While building Kindmanage I realized something. There are tons of apps just like it floating out in the wild all with happy paying customers. What value could my app possibly bring to an already fulfilled space? That answer was, well, none.
Just the other day I realized that Goplan and yes, even Basecamp already solved a [...]
In my recent adventures in the Rails jungle, I’ve re-discovered the benefits of RJS in my applications. Granted, you add a completely new layer for the sake of “unobtrusiveness” in your app’s functionality, but for the time being let’s pretend we don’t have to abide by such rules.
RJS = Ruby Javascript
The primary benefits of RJS [...]