A challenge faced by users of Open Source lies in understanding how to properly evaluate and use a given piece of code. Let’s walk through evaluating and getting set up to work with an opscode chef cookbook in the context of our ideal system. These examples will focus on our nmdbase cookbook from a development… Continue reading Getting Started with Chef Cookbooks
Ruby Dependency Management with Bundler
Managing dependencies is a difficult task in any system. Bundler makes it almost enjoyable for Ruby! Bundler is a dependency manager for Ruby. Projects that are cognizant of dependency management are more favorable than those that rely on manual management. Bundler creates project (or folder) specific bundles of gems with specific versions for that project’s… Continue reading Ruby Dependency Management with Bundler
Ruby Version Manager
In this post we learn to manage Ruby versions with the Ruby Version Manager or RVM. Ruby is a useful language and we use it extensively. As developers we need the ability to quickly move between installed versions of Ruby as necessary to work against. This need was recently highlighted by the release of OSX… Continue reading Ruby Version Manager
Rockies Opening Day 2013
People sometimes ask us why we have chosen to make Opening Day a NEWMEDIA paid holiday every year. For the answer, just look outside! Seriously, the answer is simple, and this year once again demonstrated exactly why. With neighborhood crowds estimated at around 100,000 people, swarming literally outside the front door of the NEWMEDIA offices,… Continue reading Rockies Opening Day 2013
Don’t Be Content with Your Content
Ahhhhh Awesome! It’s time to edit your content, said no one ever. Really, if one just sits in front of a computer and begins to type, something (be it relevant or not) is going to make its way on the screen. Which is really cool if you think about it. I can create when ever… Continue reading Don’t Be Content with Your Content
Voice Gives you Choice Content
A guide to interesting writing Hello. Is it that time again? Man, where do our lives go? So what is it that we are covering this week? Ohhhh, right. Adding voice to your content. Let me see, I have some stuff around here to help me with this lesson. Where is it……ahh here we are.… Continue reading Voice Gives you Choice Content
The Importance of Functions in JavaScript
The main difference between JavaScript and most other languages is that JavaScript allows us to create a function as a stand alone entity, and to pass it as an argument to a method, which can accept it as a parameter, just as we can any other object type. This allows us to create compact code… Continue reading The Importance of Functions in JavaScript
Hexadecimal to rgba Conversion with Sass
If you like using hexadecimal number formats over rgb, but also like the ‘a’ in rgba, then you may want to consider using the Sass rgba function. The function takes two parameters: the first one is the hexadecimal color, the second is the alpha value. Converting a dark gray hex to rgba black with 50… Continue reading Hexadecimal to rgba Conversion with Sass
Denver Drupal: Leading Way to Expand your Business
With the emergence of latest development technologies in the web development segment, various web based firms are evolving at the pacing need. As the enterprise field transforming to the online commercial platform so the need of such web services becoming quite necessary. Revolution of online business will meet the user’s requirements significantly and that’s why… Continue reading Denver Drupal: Leading Way to Expand your Business
Value Your Investment while Hiring SEO Services
As you have developed the website and make it ready for the market platform to showcase your products and services for sale but left the online marketing may diminish your presence in the online arena. To increase the web presence and search engine visibility of your website you need the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy… Continue reading Value Your Investment while Hiring SEO Services