New Leaders

Getting things right

Money makes the world go around. But money has little to do with innovation, quality, and creativity. Money can help move boulders quicker, but it doesn’t teach you to use your head to solve problems. When you want to create something, spare no expense in the time applied figuring out what makes it great. Be willing to solve problems differently than others have approached it. Certainly, if you are in a competitive industry you always feel the need to keep up with contenders. The fact is, you have as much time as you need to develop something of very high quality. Most deadlines are arbitrary unless a specific event occurs, and you need to be prepared; some things need to take as long as it takes to get them right. continue …

New! — GitHub Widget

UPDATE — Login has now been added to track the activity of your private feeds.

We have been spending a little spare time at New Leaders, learning Apple’s Dashcode to develop widgets for both Mac OS X and iPhone Apps. I decided to start with something simple, so I created a dashboard widget for the very popular social coding site GitHub. This will be a work in progress. As I learn more about Dashcode I will continue to add additional features to make it more useful. Initially, it just displays the commits from earlier this month.

Download the GitHub widget for Mac OS X continue …

Cherish your customers

Too often, customers are treated like they don’t matter. Whether it is standing in line, waiting on hold, or being told to get lost. Successful companies seem to forget how important each and every customer is in maintaining a solid reputation, and doing business. Not every relationship is perfect, but like most things, they sooner or later come to an end. It can happen due to a myriad of reasons; should poor service be one of them? continue …

New! — Make A Payment

In an effort to simplify the billing process for our customers, we have recently completed our very own custom-built online payment application. We are now a web design company that can accept credit or check cards…through our web site. Who knew?

Check Out Make A Payment
https://newleaders.com/payments

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Sandboxing Rails

James Duncan Davidson wrote up a great recipe for installing Rails that I have been pointing people to for a couple years. For some reason it’s now missing from his site so here’s my version of it from memory. continue …