Unsolicited Feedback

A friend went to my website today and had a few excellent comments. Although I often ask friends for feedback on my work, but I find that, like subatomic particles, their opinions change when prodded. But today, my friend’s comments were unsolicited. It’s my favorite kind of feedback, but very difficult to encourage and, sometimes for me, difficult to recognize.

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Minoff4Constable.com Is Live!

A Candidate Rises

About a month ago, we were approached by Barry Minoff, a referral in need of a website. He knew of the work we did for A & R Motorsports, liked the style, and needed a website for his election (he’s running for Constable in Denton County, Texas). It’s Barry’s first-ever run for political office, and we were proud to have the opportunity to help him in the process.

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Benchmark Building and Construction Deployed!

We just launched Benchmark Building and Construction’s first website. Check it out here: http://www.bbctexas.com.

At Benchmark Building & Construction, our primary focus is quality custom buildings and light-to-medium industrial construction. Whether you are building a new workshop, a home, a commercial facelift, new restaurant, or even a small barn, we have the experience and the resources to get the job done right the first time.

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Configuration of Ruby On Rails ActionMailer for Microsoft Exchange SMTP

You may find that your Microsoft Exchange server is not configured for AUTH LOGIN over STMP, and only supports the Microsoft-specific AUTH NTLM. When trying to use the default Net/SMTP library with an AUTH NTLM server, you’ll receive the 5.7.4 unrecognized authentication type error. Thanks to the ruby-ntlm gem, you can still authenticate.

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Creating a rotating banner for CS-Cart with bxSlider – Part 1: Creating the block code

Everything that you need to create a rotating banner in CS-Cart 2 can be created from existing open-source resources. Here, I describe how to create a rotating banner using bxSlider that integrates well with the existing banner management component in CS-Cart.

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Upgrades to St. Rita Readers

After a lengthy upgrade and redesign period, the latest version of St. Rita Readers has been released. The site underwent an upgrade of the existing Rails 3.0.3 codebase to 3.0.5, with some minor tweaks to the Controllers and Models to improve efficiency. However, the interface is completely new and, I dare say, attractiver.

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