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Web Design Blog - April 2006

Ruby on Rails File & Color Coding Support for Dreamweaver 8.0

Although there are a few configuration work arounds and so-called patches out there, I finally found an actual extension for Ruby on Rails .rb and .rhtml files that works like a charm. These guys must have just ranked as I had searched for this before and they didn't come up. Say thanks to our friends at ridingtheclutch.com ... read more!

Apr 06, 2006 6:38pm by Shad Vick

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Every Server Goes Down Sooner or Later - MSN Search Down

Our sister company lunawebhosting.com has not been down since inception. Sure we cater to our clients by limiting the number of accounts on the shared host as well as a real-time monitor on bandwidth spikes to keep uptime 99.99% with scheduled maintenance on weekends at midnight if necessary. But I get a kick out of seeing large corporations down mid day. Such is the case right now. Yes the search engine giant MSN is down. Doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Larger Image ... read more!

Apr 06, 2006 11:46am by Shad Vick

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Timestamp 01:02:03 04/05/06 PM - Every Hundred Years - Happening Today

Yea I know this may sound geeky - and it is, but for those of you who may have interest in unique facts, here's one for you. As web developers who often deal with methods for entering time - we see these kinds of things. My friend, Rob, (a Unix/Apache Guru) from bluehost tipped me off on this one today. When the clock strikes 1pm today April 5, 2006 - there will be a line up of sequential number...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 like this 01:02:03 04/05/06 PM. It doesn't happen often (estimate every hundre... read more!

Apr 05, 2006 1:00pm by Shad Vick

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One Way to Validate Outsource Partners in Development

Like many other application development firms - we outsource to freelance contract developers from time to time to help us expand and contract on software projects. The quality of a developer is critical to a project - even if they are just "helping out". Over the years I've found a few ways to quickly qualify a programmer to make sure they're up to par. Today I'll just give a couple of tips that help me validate that they know what they're doing, or at least understand corporate compliance and... read more!

Apr 05, 2006 1:00pm by Shad Vick

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SEO

As we offer search engine optimization services to clients on web builds and makeovers - we keep pretty good tabs on tips from some of the players in the industry. One of our parters, Chris Bennet from 97th Floor Firm recently shared a tip that adds some real value. He was checking out lunawebs.com and realized some of the google datacenters were showing "weird" data for our site. He suggested to try something that had been helping him lately; making all my non www. pages 301 to your www. page... read more!

Apr 03, 2006 4:49pm by Shad Vick

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