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Rails' Exception Notifer Plugin in 5 Simple Steps

As a developer, I'm always looking tools which make my job easier (...and therefore more enjoyable!). And with Ruby on Rails, there's a smorgasboard of tools and plugins available to us in the development community.

However, I'm relatively new to Ruby on Rails development (about 5 months and counting!) so I thought I'd give back to the RoR community by sharing some of what I've learnt so far.

Posted by Adrian Toh on Mar 12, 2008

15 Key Strokes to a Word Document

In the current market place, businesses both large and small expend large quantities of time and energy trying to achieve more and more with less and less; whether it be less staff or less hours, a great result is expected.

It is this need for efficiency and expediency that has shaped o'neill.software, and we have been providing these efficiencies to our clients for many years.

Posted by Paul O'Neill on Oct 05, 2007

(not) Just Office Templates

Want top quality Office templates for under 20 bucks?

oneill.software in conjunction with Jason Stirk is proud to announce the release of Just Office Templates.

Posted by Paul O'Neill on Sep 01, 2007

Got system problems? Solve them with a service agreement!

Earlier this year o'neill.software introduced a new product…er service… er offering; the Service Agreement.

With every system and piece of software we develop we offer a 30 day defects-fixed-free guarantee. Find a defect in our code and we’ll fix it at no additional charge!

Posted by Paul O'Neill on Sep 01, 2007

Eat Your Own Dog Food

Last month saw the publication of our first newsletter in a very long time!

But this time we cheated!

Posted by Paul O'Neill on Jun 07, 2007

Smart Documents for Dummies

This week we take a quick look at a very under used feature in Microsoft Office called “Smart Documents”.

Smart Documents are standard Office documents that have some additional code (not macros) associated with them.

Posted by Paul O'Neill on May 24, 2007

Track web site leads automatically

Another example of automating your business through software is a lead tracking database we wrote for an insurance broker client of ours.

They receive leads for new business via their web site which are emailed to them automatically.

Posted by Paul O'Neill on May 17, 2007

From design to MSAccess using DBDesigner 4

The boys at FabForce (no, it’s not Queer I(T) for a Straight Guy) have built a great database design tool call DB Designer 4.

Primarily it works with MySQL but by scouring the forums, I found a script to produce Oracle SQL so with a bit of editing (Vim, we love you so), I was able to spit out my own flavour of MSAccess SQL.

Posted by Paul O'Neill on Mar 24, 2005