by Peter Connolly | May 20, 2011 | featured, technology
Internet Explorer 6 isn’t going to go away. We wish it would, and so does Microsoft – but it won’t. And when it does, it’s big brother IE7 will be there to frustrate programmers for years to come. Until all that happens, we need to be able to...
by Peter Connolly | May 18, 2011 | clients, featured, technology
Today I got an email, phone call and more emails from a client – the Production Manager at Yes Agency. He had a major problem, as you can tell by his multiple methods of contact. Basically, his Macintosh wasn’t working. I know – all the Mac...
by Peter Connolly | May 11, 2011 | featured, technology
Today our server was the target of a dictionary attack from a bot in Vietnam. Our csf/lfd install was up to the job, and swatted every attempt to login (see http://www.kpdirection.com/technology/using-csf-and-lfd/ for details of how we do that). The downside was that...
by Peter Connolly | May 9, 2011 | featured, slideshow, technology
A set of filler texts as found on 1970’s – 1980’s Television OK, this is for me, as I’m always having to locate this stuff on Google. The traditional Lorem Ipsum texts are fine for most purposes, but sometimes you need to add filler text and...
by Peter Connolly | May 5, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails, technology
What is a Helper? A helper is a piece of code which can be used in several places within your Ruby project, which helps you to keep your code DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). By moving code into helpers you can reduce repetition, improve readability and increase...
by Peter Connolly | Apr 20, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails, technology
Creating sortable lists in Ruby on Rails isn’t difficult, but all of the tutorials I’ve found out there save the new order of the items immediately to the database. I want to only save the new sort order when the associated record is saved. Here’s...
