Debugging your rails controllers with JRuby and Mongrel
If like me you think that NetBeans is a superb IDE, but quiet often for some unknown reason end up firing up TextMate to fix a bug or add a new feature, only to realise you lose all of the lovely...
View ArticleTracking Downloads with Google Analytics
Once upon a time ago you would have installed your Web Traffic Analytics software on your server which would process your logs, however Google have completely changed the game and made it so easy to...
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Engaging Technology Deprived Employees.
Most of us the corporate world enjoy the relative luxury of sitting in front of a computer for most if not all of the working day, while our colleagues on the Shop Floor are rarely exposed to the...
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Component Workshop Releases an Iphone application.
Component Workshop, 1st September 2009Today Apple have accepted Component Workshop’s first app in to the iTunes App Store. gPhushed is a small utility that enables users of the popular gMail service to...
View ArticleJruby.com
We have aquired Jruby.com, and we intend to make it a useful resource for people who are interested in enterprise Ruby on Rails development. I'll explain some of our ideas here, so you can have some...
View ArticleGPhushed: Prototyping in Ruby, Production in Java
A couple of weeks ago, our first iPhone app went live. It's called Gphushed, and it notifies you, through the magic of Apple Push Notifications, the instant an email arrives in your Google Mail inbox....
View Article.NET: Converting Word documents (.doc or .docx) to PDF automatically
This article contains a brief discussion of the issues and a C# example that you can use to convert Word documents to HTML or PDF on the fly in your applications.Converting Word documents to PDF and...
View ArticleEmail Push Server update Friday morning; adds AOL support
We've just submitted a new version of our Push Email app that supports the monitoring of AOL Mail accounts. This version of the app is called AOLMail, and should be available in a few weeks. It...
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Converting Flash to HTML5
OK, The title of this post is a little provocative I admit it, but its a question that is and will be asked more and more as devices without Flash (iPhone, iPad, etc...) become mainstream (although I...
View ArticleWhy we use Rails for Client Projects.
At least 50% of the time a client will want us to use a specific technology (.NET or Java), this makes perfect sense as a lot of our clients are corperates who have invested a lot of time and money in...
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