Recent Blog Entries

Apr 13 2009

Rails Seed Data

Seed data in Rails applications has been discussed ad nauseum, but I wanted to throw out another simple option that I use quite regularly. I’ve essentially found that seed data for my applications comes in three different flavors.

Apr 2 2009

Custom Buttons with CSS

While localizing our Automated Test Database software, we found the need for a better solution for styling buttons. This post covers using CSS to style buttons using both the <button> and <a> tags across all major browsers.

May 7 2008

Auditing UX with Documentation

End-user documentation has always been a thorn for many developers. We’d much rather be writing working software than explaining how that software works. It is especially difficult working in an agile environment where things change so quickly that writing extensive end-user documentation just slows down application development.