Ruby on Rails

I’ve Finally Converted!…sort of

Well… after several months of not being able to blog due to random Typo errors, I’ve finally made a transition to Mephisto CMS. It was a surprisingly smooth conversion once I found the proper combination of script hacks. There are still a few problems though, unfortunately. Mainly, that pagination seems to have “disappearred” [...]

Robert Dempsey & Craig Ambrose – RoR Gurus Interviewed

About a month ago I conducted a couple informational interviews for my Job Search Strategies class.
The first interview was with Robert Dempsey, Project Director of Atlantic Dominion Solutions a Ruby on Rails website and application development firm, and Founder and Director of Rails For All a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Ruby on [...]

JulieMarie.net – Overdue Launch Announcement

Well, I’m really not sure why I didn’t do this a month ago, or why it took me this long to think of it, but my new portfolio site is up at JulieMarie.net.
I built the site with Radiant, a simple, Ruby on Rails based content management system and designed the layout myself.
Check it out! Let [...]

Post-grad ideas (and the story of my college career)

Post-graduate plans are something that I’ve been thinking about rather frequently since the beginning of the new year. To really see where I’m coming from, I guess I should tell you how I got to where I am now…

ExpressiveConnections.com – Alpha Launch

Check it out, kids: ExpressiveConnections.com has finally been announced.
Expressive Connections is a network for creative professionals – aimed at aspiring and accomplished writers and artists who are looking to begin or advance in a career utilizing their talent.
The site is in a sort of alpha-mode right now. We think it’s got a pretty solid [...]

Just A Few Semi-Random Things

Here’s a few things that I think are worth mentioning but don’t necessarily need their own posts.
First, you know ads are going to reach the News Feed of Facebook users any-day now, when you see flyers all over your campus asking students to join the Crest WhiteStrips Facebook group.
Here’s a link to a picture of [...]

My First Rails (+ HTML & CSS) App: Coming Soon!

So for the last week and a half, I’ve been building a Rails application for my HTML course – Interactive Media I. The “Final Project”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/?page_id=3 for my class is to create a “significant” website by manually coding HTML and CSS, in a small group. Well, we are definitely shooting for “significant.” I’m [...]

After 11 days of blogger’s block…

Sometimes it takes me a while to see how amazing things are. And then **(big)BAM!!** all of a sudden it will come to me. At that point of realization, I will either become extremely excited or extremely confused. Like just now I realized how perfectly my floor lamp lights up my tapestry-covered [...]

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