Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This is the second part to getting a Windows machine set up for Ruby on Rails Development by having Ubuntu running inside Virtualbox. View Part 1 here. Today’s screencast will walk through installing Ruby, rubygems 1.3.5 and Rails with rubygems, and SqLite3 as well as installing my preferred code editor Komodo Edit. Watch the screencast [...]
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 1
Monday, September 14th, 2009
I recently purchased a new computer and had to get Ruby on Rails installed on it. Up to this point I’ve been using my wife’s Macbook for ROR development on weekends. It was time to make the jump to a dedicated environment that didn’t interfere with the Facebook cravings of the wife. Instead of just [...]
Getting Macports and Git Working on Snow Leopard 10.6
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
We just upgraded to Snow Leopard at work and while the OS is great I did hit a few problems. To start I realized that my install of Git was not working. Then I got farther down the path and realize that Macports was also dead. Then yet another step and I had no C [...]
Google Custom Search
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I recently added google custom search (CSE) as an advanced search on a clients store. While the standard search engine provided decent results it does a very poor job of eliminating useless words (the, a…). Since Goolge does an awesome job of providing relevant search results and the CSE is free we jumped on board. [...]
The Daily News: Google custom search and getting more clients
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
How many of us have used the built in search for a site and found it to be horrid? I know that a site I am currently working on has what I feel is an unusable search function. In fact the results are so bad I think it’s better if they aren’t even there. So [...]
Bring on the New: CS4 is out
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago Adobe announced that Sept. 23 was the release day for CS4. Well today was the big day in the design industry…Adobe announced and is shipping CS4 starting now. I had opportunity to watch the live showing off of some of the new features of CS4 and wow. I answered my own [...]
Moving a WordPress Blog
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Over the next few weeks I will be moving this hosted blog to a self hosted site as part of my continued effort to improve my search engine optimization and marketing. I thought that it would be fun to take you along. So…. After doing some research (this is my first wordpress implementation) I decided [...]
Making Brushes in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
I started this tutorial with the intent of making some woodgrain brushes. The tree image I picked to work on yeilded better grunge brushes though so that is what we will look at today but stay tuned for some free wood grain brushes later this week. Also remember to save your work regularly. I had [...]
