That’s nice, but we never use it
Not the words you want to be hearing from your users if you are a developer on a web site or application. Unfortunately it happens more often than you would think. A fantastic new feature is dreamed up and added. It’s tested thoroughly, it looks really good, it will save heaps of time. But no [...]
Dev-Test-Prod
Coming from an enterprise application background (PeopleSoft), I’m used to the dev-test-prod development paradigm:
Develop and unit test in the dev environment
Migrate and functional/integration test in the test environment
Release to the prod environment
This is such a ingrained process to me that I thought maybe I should question whether it applies to web site development?
Stepping back for [...]
Web Development Screencasts
I like learning web development skills by watching screencasts. They allow you ton see what’s being changed as its happening and you can pause and rewind as much as you need to.
Here’s a list of some really good screencasts sites and some specific screencasts that may be of interest:
Sites
CSS-Tricks
Lost in the Woods
NetTuts+
Railscasts
Teach Me To Code
ASP.net
ASP.NET [...]
ActionMailer Timeouts
Using action mailer on my rails application, I was getting Timeout::Error messages in my phusion passenger logs when sending email through SMTP. However, testing the application locally on my PC, the emails were being sent without a problem. I came across this post in the Site5 forums which suggested changing the actual address in my [...]
A Rails Searchable API
Available from RailsAPI.com, you can either browse it online or download it and open it locally in your web browser. Fantastic stuff.