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Chuck Victory Goes Live!

We’ve just launched a new e-commerce website for Newport, Oregon photographic artist Chuck Victory. Chuck has a background in advertising and photography, and a serious interest in wine and art. While a simple website, there are a few features that we feel should be mentioned: Content Management – … [ Read More ]

Ruby Gem and Rails Plugin for Mailchimp

Recently, the limitations of the acts_as_mailchimp plugin that I threw together a while back have been staring me in the face. The more that I work with Mailchimp, and the more that they improve their API, the more I realized that it was time to do something about it. UPDATE: We are… [ Read More ]

Rails Form With Multiple Attributes

While developing a recent Ruby on Rails project, I ran into a case where the client needed to create a product that had multiple attributes. In this case, a single product was available in multiple sizes, and I wanted a single form that would allow a user to create as many sizes of the prod… [ Read More ]

Watermark #4: More and More!

The second Friday the 13th in a row brought another stroke of good luck our way when the fourth edition of Watermark was distributed. The sun smiled over Newport and it ALMOST made us not want to go back to work. Today we started with Local Ocean, the Coffee House, Port Dock 1, Bay Market, and the Rogue Br… [ Read More ]

Watermark #3 is out in force!

Friday the 13th was NOT a scary day for our Watermark staff! The day was too beautiful, for one thing, and since our reliable local printers, Pioneer Printing, called to say it was ready at about 10 a.m., we started our route. First we we went to South Beach to drop off copies at the Rogues Ales Brewery… [ Read More ]

Rails, Xapian and acts_as_xapian

We have been wrapping up a current Rails project that entails creating a searchable directory of organizations, businesses and individuals. In order to add full text search functionality into the Rails application that we are developing, we decide to use Xapian as a search engine. In the past, we … [ Read More ]

Topping The Charts in Google

Now that our website has been up and live for a couple of months, it’s time to put things in perspective with regard to search engine optimization. Getting indexed, ranked and established in the major search engines takes time, which can be a frustrating aspect of optimizing a website. Often times,… [ Read More ]