A year or two ago, I was looking at some community websites when I found one that promised to be “free forever” (they even said “we’ll never charge for our services”).
This kind of promise is stupid. You don’t know what your business will be doing in a year’s time — unless you’re a dedicated [...]
In which I extol the virtues of a four day week and explain why the British work ethic is bad for business.
Don’t
Try one of these instead
Happy Cog’s Greg Hoy recently wrote about how to “figure out which deals are actually worth closing” when it comes to website design. Here’s my take on the same subject, from a small business’s point of view.
When I first started doing bits and pieces of freelance web design and development, I thought I should take [...]
I’ve been reviewing some code recently and have been struck by a few misconceptions about how to handle boolean (true/false) values in ruby. Here’s an example:
[ruby]
def authorise_to_edit_article
if current_user.can_edit_articles and @user_action == ‘edit’
return true
else
return false
end
end
[/ruby]
That will run, but there are a few [...]
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