http://www.designbyblake.com Ramblings of a Web Designer Sun, 04 May 2008 23:45:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the longest time I've been wanting to start using version control on my projects. I never really had the time to look into the options that are available to me. Recently Ruby On Rails officially switched away from subversion and over to Git. Since I ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/60 I have an old Lexar jump drive, 256MB total storage. I bought it for a $40 when it first came out to replace an old 128MB drive. I didn't think it could get better than 256MB in my pocket. not one, not two but three, count them, three loads ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/57 I was checking my Google Analytics account today and noticed a recent spike in page views. As this blog is new and I'm not anyone of terrible importance in the web community I found this odd. my article was number one on page oneA lot of traffic is coming ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/55 On occasion, many occasions, web browsers don't treat javascript the same way. Usually the issue is with Internet Explorer not acting like other browsers, so it can be useful to know if your user's browser is IE or not. Here is a little function that can tell you ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/53 I recently got a Nikon D-80. I say got and not purchased because the camera came from a now defunct website, ShopFreePay.com. The site had members try different offers to earn products. I tried Vonage, Gamefly, The New York Times and more. In the end I ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/52 There is a great new Ruby on Rails plugin that I found over at Rails Lodge called SMS_fu created by Brendan Lim. SMS_Fu allows you to send text messages to cell phone by providing a phone number, service provider and message.I think this plugin could be quite useful for ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/50 One of the things I would like to do with this blog is to share some of the code that I use on a daily basis. Over the last year I found that I was using the same functions over and over again. I was going through ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/49 Welcome to Designbyblake.com, online home to Dan Blake, professional web designer. Currently I work full-time for a large printing company as an in house web designer. The thing is, the term web designer is rather generic. I work on a team of 7 "web designers" each one of ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/48 So it has been a little over a year since my last post and this blog will disappear within the next few months but I thought what the hell, it is time to post. Think of Basecamp just custom built for my current employer. Just as the title says, I've jumped on ... http://www.designbyblake.com/archives/47