My Journey on Rails, Part 5: Tests
Last time, I was in the middle of plotting and scheming the addition of UJS to my search form and decided that now would be a great time to stop procrastinating my test harness. I’ve had some experience with TDD in the past, but as …
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Wagger Offers New Client Referral Bonus!
Everybody’s happy with a little extra cash in their pocket, and we’re happy building great websites and applications! Let’s work together and make some happy! Announcing Wagger’s New Client Referral Bonus Program Throughout the months of August and September, Wagger is offering a $250 referral …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 4: ERB to Haml
Note: This installment was planned, originally, to cover a twofer of topics. I’ll talk about why I chose not to at the end of the article. Haml ALL the ERBs! I have a couple of lingering hesitations over adopting Haml, which are reinforced by an …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 3: Advanced Search Form
On to my next task! An advanced search form. Following along to the revised version of RailsCasts Episode #111, I find that most of my newbie stumbles are around what to pluralize and when (between the classes themselves and the collections of instances themselves) and …
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Hyperion Interactive Reporting Online Training
We’ve been toying with the idea of bringing our expert-level on-site Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting training to the online arena and we’re looking for feedback from our visitors. If offered online, through a series of live web conference style presentations, with a focus on the …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 2: Authentication Model
Alas; work happens! I also took time out to skim some of the UC Berkeley SaaS class. The quality of the course is good, but I found myself ahead of many of the software engineering concepts and ended up toying with several of the exercises …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 1: Tools and Importing Data
We at Wagger Designs have been brewing up a custom web application for some time now. This blog series, in several parts, will follow my research and development process of taking our app from idea to reality. I’ll be sharing techniques and workarounds to issues that …
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Wagger Grows Websites
While anyone can make a website, our team specializes in truly cultivating the growth your business’ website. What does cultivating a website even mean? Excellent question! Our process of website cultivation is an end-to-end process to continually evaluate the needs of your customers, your business, …
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Tips for Pediatric Websites
While we formed the legal structure of Wagger Designs in 2009, our founding members were doing business under the name of Wagger Designs for several years before that. While going through our customer archives I came across our very first customer, a Pediatric Dentist operating …
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How You Can Avoid Google’s “Over Optimization” Algorithm
During SXSW, Matt Cutts (a high profile search engine quality member of Google), was interviewed about a new algorithm change directed towards addressing people who are optimizing a site to “trick” the search engines into ranking the site well. Now before we all get our …
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