November 2007
16 posts
Shelf Pages and Problem Solving
I’ve reached every feature milestone for the pages feature and now I’m at a cross-roads where decisions need to be made. Yesterday I attempted taking an existing file structure and recreating it with Shelf. The result was interesting and it revealed a few problems, including their questions. What about site navigation? I’m realizing that a lot content management systems have some...
Cullect, The Quiet Feed Reader
I’ve been using Cullect for a couple days and being an avid Google Reader user, its been a definite fish-out-of-water experience. This is my experience thus far. Content Discovery and the Interface The most surprising element of Cullect is its bare essentials approach to feed management. Unlike Google Reader it doesn’t inundate you with useless UI elements. However I must say there is...
Dell XPS One; It's Still Not an iMac
As of late Dell introduced their go at the ever elusive all-in-one PC market that was seemingly plagued with low hardware performance before the iMac came along. Unfortunately, this will be yet another failed attempt to compete with Apple, Inc. There are plenty reasons why Dell’s rendition of an all-in-one PC just isn’t going to do very well, but the largest of those reasons is in...
Facebook Has Done it Again!
This probably happened a while ago, but it seems as though MySpace has some work to do considering Facebook just implemented Music, Business and Product profiles. What is MySpace going to do now that the second biggest social network has met them feature for feature? MySpace is Done™
Steepl Becomes Shelf and The One Man Shop
I run a blog called Shelved and it is essentially what I talk about here on my tumblr. However it inspired a new name for the tiny ruby on rails cms that I am building, which is now called shelf. I am stripping out everything I thought I wanted in a small content management system and going smaller. I Still Like Helping with Content Maintenance Being hesitant to say that, its true. As web...
jQuery for Ruby on Rails →
Gawd, I’ve been waiting on this forever!
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Apple Fanboys, Eat Your Hearts Out!
A recent post via myself in the Apple support forums:Reading back through all the replies and such, it is apparent that there are two point of views. One point of view states that TN panels are common and you as the consumer should have known that before buying a product. Another view states that Apple has done their customers a great disservice by skimping on a quality LCD display. Both are...
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Why Apple Won't Recall Alum. 20'' iMacs
Apple has a very large bottom-line to protect especially in the early-adopter stage. While this post mostly concerns the low-quality LCD panels used in their new aluminum 20” inch iMacs, one can’t help but cringe at the thought of wasting money on sub-par quality. I recently purchased one of these only to find that the LCD isn’t nearly what I’ve seen in commercials,...
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Managing Static Pages With Rails: Part 2
I’d found a great way to manage all my static pages and organize them in a hierarchical manner. Thanks to the source code from the Comatose plugin I was able to get most of the functionality I needed. But I ran into a few snags along the way. Index is the Homepage My original implementation allowed me to have everything I wanted except for an index for every sub-homepage. For example, my...
Managing Static Pages With Rails
I don’t know why, but this subject seems to be often overlooked compared to other common web development tasks. There are two sources/projects that seem to provide any real value for this subject. One of those being a presentation on managing static sites with rails found here. The other is simply a plugin by the name of Comatose. Both have essentially the same goals. They each to want...
What I Want Out of a Ruby on Rails CMS
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this as I am currently building smal content management system. Here are some things I expect from a good, simple opinionated rails-based content management system. No limitation on choice of file or web based static page management Unlimited page hierarchy. Ex: url.com/products/clothes/jeans/low-rise Quick feature development and not using a module...
Riding Solo: Really?
I am in the process of weighing the pros and cons whilst doing some heavy research on the subject of full-time freelance web development and or design. This will definitely be an interesting journey. There are very many aspects to doing full-time freelance work. A colleague shared that its a matter of getting great at managing the business of you. While this would seem easy to anyone, I’m...
Hollyweb, USA
This is the opinion and views of only one man. I’d deem you ignorant and without intellect to take these for anything more than a grain of salt. I read stuff on the webv quite frequently and often times I’ll see a mass gathering of really pointless events, articles and blogs that never seem to say or offer anything of value. It Just Doesn’t Matter For example, recently on...
Installing Ruby, Rails and Friends on OS X Leopard
This has to be the worst experience known to man. Everything always seems to go well 90% of the time and then the remain 10% is a complete nightmare!