Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Are enquiry/contact forms needed?

Tuesday 22 July 2008

There are a lot of websites that use enquiry forms. Some are huge corporate sites, some are tiny one-man bands. When re-designing the epiGenesys site I started to question how useful they actually are. Are they there for a currently relevant reason or are they just a relic of past ...

SimplePie RSS Aggregation

Monday 21 July 2008

When re-designing our company website I was looking for something to parse and aggregate the RSS feeds for our 2.0 subscriptions (Twitter, del.icio.us etc.) The code we were using was a nameless script that wouldn't run on our development server. As the script was over 3 years old, rather than try ...

Ruby on (and off the) Rails

Monday 14 July 2008

I'm having issues learning Ruby on Rails. "No!" I hear you cry, why could this possibly be? Have I discovered another framework that's quicker and better? Well, no. The reason I'm having trouble learning Ruby on Rails is due to content of tutorials on the web. I've found it very ...