Tired of Time Machine Running All the Time?
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Uncategorized
If you have a Mac laptop, and use an external drive for a backup, you may have noticed it seems like Time Machine is calculating changes almost all the time, or at least way too often. This is probably because it starts a backup after the computer wakes from sleep.
If you’re like me, and don’t [...]
Tags: apple, backup, mac, macosx
Rails Rescue Handbook, an ebook by Mike Gunderloy
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under rubyonrails
Rails is a powerful development tool for web applications – but that power can lead inexperienced developers astray. If you're working on a Rails project gone bad, the targeted advice in this ebook will get you back on track quickly.
Tags: rails, railsbooks
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | by Michael Hartl
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under rubyonrails
Rails Tutorial contains integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the underlying Ruby language,4 as well as for HTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and even a little SQL. This means that, no matter where you currently are in your knowledge of web development, by the time you finish this tutorial you will be ready for more advanced Rails resources, as well as for the more systematic treatments of the other subjects mentioned. A book-in-progress—drafts currently available for chapters 1–7.
Tags: books, railsbooks, tutorial
New Report: Green Marketing Brings in the Dough – The Green Inkwell
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Marketing
How effective is Green marketing, really?
That’s what the authors of Green Marketing: What Works; What Doesn’t – A Marketing Study Of Practitioners asked in a recent study by Watershed Publishing. The report summarizes the real-life results of Green marketing by the audiences of five industry publications.
Tags: environmental, greenmarketing, sustainablemarketing
WHM/cPanel Manual Site Removal – The Planet Forums
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How to remove a corrupted cpanel account via command line
Tags: cpanel, webhosting, whm
What’s My DNS? – Global DNS Propagation Checker
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks
A great tool for checking what your DNS name servers are from around the world – to see how propagation is going when transferring web hosts.
WebNotions: How to Avoid Getting Screwed by New Clients (fishers and wolves)
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks
One consultant's process for weeding out troublesome clients up front. Includes a discovery phase, which I like. This is for new potential clients, not for existing clients that you are having trouble with.
Sustainability Posters: Change Observer: Design Observer
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks, Sustainability
Great looking sustainability posters
Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio « Smashing Magazine
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks, wordpress
Whether you’re a photographer, graphic designer, Web designer or any other kind of visual artist, WordPress makes an excellent starting point for developing your online portfolio. And with the wealth of plug-ins and ready-made themes available, you can usually get a perfectly presentable website up and running in a matter of hours.
Turn any webform into a powerful wizard with jQuery (FormToWizard plugin)
Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks
A jQuery Plugin by Janko that turns a multiple fieldset form into a step-by-step wizard. Neat!
