rails ⋆ Needmore Designs

Do What You Love

Using the Ruby on Rails framework to build great sites.

Coming in fast on the heels of last week’s two site launches, Needmore presents the website for 360° Photographics, designed to interact with clients from initial contact (via client survey) to presenting…

Why Apple Should Buy Joyent

I like a lot of the ideas behind Apple’s .Mac service, but the service itself is quite frustrating. The file storage is awkward, seems a bit slow and buggy, and with only…

Why DHH Would Hate Flash

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails programming framework and partner at 37signals, is a very opinionated programmer. Much of his philosophy seems to revolve around making things as…

Back from RailsConf, Back from Chicago

Well our plane got in after midnight last night, we got in a few scant hours of sleep, and we’re back at work in the sweltering morning heat of Portland. With a…

Off to Chicago

We’re leaving today for Chicago and its RailsConf, for a four day crash course in Ruby and Rails and stuff like that.

Cuppin’ is Up!

Rails Day 2006 has come and gone, and we’re really proud to have the fruits of our unusual labor available to you.

Watchin’ Cuppin’

Want to keep up with Needmore Coffee’s 24 hour web project?

Rails Day, Here We Come!

Ray is joining forces with Peat Bakke to create a coffee focused Ruby on Rails application, from scratch, in 24 hours

Open Source This… Please!

Moses Gunesch is a nice guy and a brilliant Flash developer. Maybe the best I know. He’s so bright, in fact, that he’s in the process of writing what he calls the…

Pricing Hacks

There’s a lot to like about the Hacks series that O’Reilly publishes. These are affordable computer books (usually $25-$30) that are filled with tips you can use right away, and tend to…

Manningless

Excited about David Black’s forthcoming Ruby for Rails, I joined what publisher Manning calls their “Manning Early Access Program,” or MEAP, in February of this year. It’s quite similar to the Pragmatic…

Misspell Your Way To Good Search Ranking!

It becomes really easy to get to the top of a Google keyword search when you spell something wrong. Take Gullery by Geoffrey Grosenbach. Or Noboto. Or Flickr or even Google itself.…

Business Tip: Run Rails at Home

I think that Ryan Raaum’s Locomotive is about the best thing since sliced bread.

Using Safari with TextMate

I just love TextMate, and any excuse I can find to use it, I do. There are a ton of features that you really get used to, and it is a very fast and flexible program.