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Business Networking in Essex
Do you own a business in Essex and like me are getting fed up with all the gloom and doom sayers who keep on and on about how the whole economy is falling apart, 2012 will be the worst year yet, blah blah blah…. I say b****cks to them! The economy will continue to run, people need stuff, businesses need things, services...continue reading
Deploying Ruby on Rails on Plesk Server
Disclaimer: I have been creating a deployment document for deploying Rails on a Plesk server over the past few months, while gathering information and testing I have come across many useful sources, while I would like to credit these sources I have not been very good at logging the website addresses of them. If you believe any of the...continue reading
New client mobile website goes live today
Over the past couple of weeks I have been working closely with Witlet Ltd, a property letting and sales company based in Witham in Essex to develop a mobile friendly version of their existing website. Witlet asked me to develop a version of their website that was mobile friendly, the pan was to create a site that would work...continue reading
New website launches today for B.UK Property Services
We have launched a new website today for B.UK Property Services in Marks Tey, Essex. We are very please with how this website has turned out and have had some good feedback from our client. We are working closely with B.UK Property Services to ensure this website performs and brings them in new business, we are confident in our...continue reading
My Blackberry Is Not Working!
From one of the funnier ‘Dear Blackberry’ tweets I found on Twitter today.continue reading
Facebook estimated to get 1 trillion pageviews per month
1 trillion pennies stacked on top of each other would be about four times the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 trillion is also the number of page views Facebook users now request every month. –http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-facebook-users-1-trillion,news-11657.html When people start talking about Billions and Trillions it becomes inconceivable to me – they are no longer numbers just characters followed by lots of...continue reading
Ruby|Rails|Paperclip – Errno::EACCES (Permission Denied)
I’ve been setting up a new Ruby on Rails web server running Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2 with Phusion Passenger, Capistrano, Git and a number of Gems. The default setup is running under the root user (I intend to change this later but for now I have decided to get it running under root, document it and then re-deploy...continue reading
Simplicity is underrated
Ever heard of the acronym K.I.S.S.? In computer terms it is a principle that means “Keep It Simple, Stupid!” and is most appreciated in the programming world where developers often see large amounts of functionality go unused by end users. The problem is that a lot of applications require additional programming to cover the “what if” factor – “What...continue reading
