by Peter Connolly | May 9, 2011 | featured, slideshow, technology
A set of filler texts as found on 1970’s – 1980’s Television OK, this is for me, as I’m always having to locate this stuff on Google. The traditional Lorem Ipsum texts are fine for most purposes, but sometimes you need to add filler text and...
by Peter Connolly | May 5, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails, technology
What is a Helper? A helper is a piece of code which can be used in several places within your Ruby project, which helps you to keep your code DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). By moving code into helpers you can reduce repetition, improve readability and increase...
by Peter Connolly | Jan 7, 2011 | technology
We’ve now moved KPDirection to our new server at Rackspace, and completed the migration of our smaller client sites. We previously hosted this site at midphase – they were local, and they were cheap. Unfortunately, they weren’t very secure; we lost...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 19, 2010 | technology
One of the major items in our development toolbelt is NetBeans for PHP. We use this for all our web development, and it fits our workflow perfectly. Or, it did. For the last few months Netbeans was getting slower and slower. I’d start up Netbeans, work for five...
