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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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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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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Fast and Easy Web Safe Fonts
Here’s a scenario that’s all too familiar for professional web developers: you have a great concept or fleshed-out design, and it’s time to convert it to real markup. Not surprisingly, there are one or more snappy, nonstandard fonts in the design that you need to …
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SOPA and PROTECT IP
While we try to stay out of politics, there have been a couple of bills threatening the free and open exchange of information on the World Wide Web that, in our minds, should be a topic that all citizens are aware of. The enforcement of …
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Removing Duplicate Rows in Interactive Reporting
With that said, sometimes the level of data being compared is not the same across the tables and duplicate records cannot be avoided. Without opening the Pandora’s box of whether or not properly organized data warehouses should ever result in a situation where duplicate records …
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Expert Hyperion Interactive Reporting Guide
Wagger Designs is delighted to announce the release of the first expert-level guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting to hit the market. Wagger’s owner, Emily M. Vose, partnering with another industry leader, Edward J. Cody, and with the support of Packt Publishing, together bring this …
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Things to Love About Chrome Developer Tools
After reading recently that IE is finally wearing out its welcome (except in government and huge companies), it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember precisely when I had started using Chrome as my primary frontend debugger, but that it is measured in months. Why would someone …
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Formatting Dates in IR Using JavaScript
By using a little bit of JavaScript to extract the components of a date, any date displayed to an end-user can be consistently formatted to display in the month/day/year format. JavaScript contains a library of methods that are unique to date-type data that allow access …
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W3C Has Big Layout Plans for CSS3
Have you ever had to spend extra hours Googling a solution to a tricky float problem? If you’re more developer than UI layout guru, there’s a Working Draft at the W3C which could make your life far easier. Dubbed template layouts, they aim to improve …
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