In the last 6 months I have installed Ruby on Rails 3 a hand full of time on OS X.  There are lots of different articles on how to do this but this is the simplest and the best way I have found to setup my Ruby on Rails 3 development environ...

In three weeks from now Alison and I will be getting a puppy. It's a Poodle / Golden Retriever mix aka a Goldendoodle. Her parents have had some Poodles and they have always been great. We have also found the temparments of Retrievers to be very good and they are a little bit calmer and really enjoy fetch and games. Seems like the perfect mix, hopefully the shedding will be light.

Over the last month I have been reading some books I got from Amazon and also reading a lot of blogs about dog training. I've been working on a cheat sheet for me as a general reference guide versus having to re-read the books regularly. This is the first version, complete with typos and sentence fragments.

I wanted to showcase a cool Michigan company that we have been working with.  They specalize in:

• Outdoor LED signs
• Electronic Message Centers
• & Andon Systems

Which are all just names for large LED signs. These signs are assembled in Farmington Hills Michigan and Electro-Matic serves companies through out the nation.  Their signs are often used outdoors in front of banks, churches, retail stores.  Since they are in the metro-Detroit area their displays are also used indoors at many manufacturers and automotive companies.

• Fontsquirrel.com
• Fontspace.com
• Dafont.com
• Urbanfonts.com
• Acidfonts.com
• Fontstock.net

We recently launched a DotNetNuke module development company. These are components to plug into existing websites to add functionality like a DNN store module that adds a shopping cart and e-commerce.

Search engines do not care for duplicative content, if you make multiple pages that have the exact same content on your website it can negatively effect your search engine position.  It probably...

I just ran into a 404 page on a website, and realized that it should be a standard practice to customize your websites 404 page to make it more useful to users. The standard...

One difference that I have always liked about DotNetNuke versus Drupal and Joomla is that the admin interface is built into the website not a separate area.  When Kevin and I researched all of the top Content Management Systems three years ago we decided ...

When creating web applications designers usually consider what the screen will look like when it is full of data, not empty.  The first impression a user has with your application should not be a blank screen.

2009 will most likely be as slow for many businesses as 2008. But you don’t have to participate, a good tip for 2009 is to work on a presentation that you can start giving to local associations and businesses.  All you need to get started…