Posted by Rob James in Featured Articles, General News, Software, Web 2.0 on February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Design to HTML Services, are they worth it?
I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with XHTML/CSS markup.
So I gave it a try….my verdict? Won’t do it again….
Now this is no criticism of the company that does it, because they are good at what they do and serve a purpose. The only problem...
Posted by Rob James on January 27th, 2010
Configure Apache to run To...
I have decided to blog about this, as I have had never ending problems in the past to try and get this configured. Here is the scenario; you have a project that requires hosting a single website in a single web domain, but you have a mix of PHP applications and Java (or in my instance, GRAILS) applications that you need to run. The way you do this, is configure both PHP and Java applications to run...
Posted by Rob James on January 27th, 2010
I’ve got the next Ki...
So you wake up in a cold sweat one night as you are in a ‘half sleep”. While you were in this delirious moment, you conjure up the most amazing idea that is going to make you a bazillion dollars and no one has done it before!!!!!
ho hum…………………..BORING!!!!
This is one of those urban myths that seems to never go away. People are always trying to stumble...
Posted by Rob James on January 19th, 2010
The 24 Hour Startup...
This morning I came across the most inspiring web site – http://www.24hour-startup.com/. (watch the 3 minute video presentation here)
Basically the idea was a bunch of developers, business guys and designers got together and delivered a startup, from start to finish in 24 hours. And I mean START to FINISH! They get together and don’t even have an idea, take it through to the point that...
Posted by Rob James on December 1st, 2009
Programatically Scheduling...
In a recent project I was working on I had a requirement to be able to set up Quartz jobs programatically as the application is running. So in other words, when the app is started, there are no jobs scheduled or running, but through a user interface, create jobs and schedule them. I could not find any info on how to do this effectively in Grails, but found it to be easy. Real Easy!!!
Start by installing...
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