Category Archives: web

Automated Testing

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 9, 2010

In the spirit of sharing, I’m going to talk a bit about how automated testing has stolen my heart. I’ve been working with some form of Web development for roughly 7 years now, but have had surprisingly little experience in maintaining a codebase over time. I’ve never liked this fact. Due to the one-off nature [...]

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Humanized Output

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 3, 2010

Shown here is a snippet of the woot! homepage. I enjoy this little widget particularly because of the way excerpts from the forums are prefixed. The human readability of “[user] would like to know…”, “[user] reports back…”, and “[user] had some troubles with a…” is significant. Go organic with your Web application’s verbiage, especially in areas where [...]

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Website Launch: Girlboy Greetings

By Aaron Ransley | Published: January 31, 2010

I’ve just helped design a site for Girlboy Greetings! Girlboy Greetings is a small greeting card establishment from Los Angeles, CA. The designs are quirky and are offered in a variety of colors. My favorite aspect of the cards is how they offer glimpses of everyday thoughts and places. geek::facts(); I took a radically different [...]

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Recommend Reading: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

By Aaron Ransley | Published: January 29, 2010

Or: Technological Ravings Regarding Production IT Tomfoolery Lately, a good deal of my time at work has been spent investigating solutions to issues my team and I face as Web developers. Having taken into account our current stack of Windows Server 2003, IIS 6, ColdFusion 8, and MSSQL 2008, various languages and development platforms have shown promise. Initially, our [...]

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