NEWMEDIA has been honored with a recognition by Denver Business Journal in its selection of “Top Denver-Area Software Developers.” April 29, 2014– Announcing a special recognition appearing in the March, 2014 issue of Denver Business Journal, New Media Solutions was selected for the following honor: “Top Denver-Area Software Developers.” This is quite an honor for … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Any Drupal website that deals with sensitive data (e.g. credit cards, medical records, etc) should have an SSL connection enabled in order to encrypt the transmission of said data back and forth from the website. Unfortunately, installing securepages (a popular module for serving SSL enabled pages) can be a frustrating process for first time users. This goals … Continued
When doing front end work on a project that you are new to, there is often the question of what theme is being used and back in the old day, how is the CSS set up. Now with SASS we are in a whole new world of organization and structure that can tend to be … Continued
In migrate, defining a text format for a mapped field is fairly straightforward. $this->addFieldMapping(‘field_about_us:format’) ->defaultValue(‘full_html’); What we’re doing in the example above is mapping the default value “full_html” to the “format” subfield of the “field_about_us” field. This essentially sets the text format to full_html for data migrated into our content type. More field-mapping specific information … Continued
I recently decided to quit jumping from responsive grid to responsive grid in hopes of finding the perfect grid that solved all my problems and filled the void left by a number of other grids used in the past. I made this decision, because for the most part the previous grids I tried all did … Continued
