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What’s My DNS? – Global DNS Propagation Checker

ivanoats — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:08:52 +0000

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)

ivanoats — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:07:18 +0000

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

ivanoats — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:16:14 +0000

Great looking sustainability posters

Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio « Smashing Magazine

ivanoats — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:16:32 +0000

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)

ivanoats — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:43:02 +0000

A jQuery Plugin by Janko that turns a multiple fieldset form into a step-by-step wizard. Neat!

Maintainable Software: Rails Logging Tips

ivanoats — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:46:36 +0000

Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article by Mike Zaberezny demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging.

Outside In Development With Cucumber

ivanoats — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:47:23 +0000

Another great slideshow on cucumber and behavior driven development.

The LAZY Developer’s Guide to BDD (with Cucumber)

ivanoats — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:32:15 +0000

A good explanation of Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber

Don’t Stop Supporting IE6

ivanoats — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:28:44 +0000

Just don't work too hard at it - send them the printer stylesheet or something!

Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Matthew Paul Moore

ivanoats — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:54:15 +0000

Rails best practices. There's a growing need to ensure that code and design strategies maintain an extremely high level of quality across different projects. Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered.