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After launching a site with a calendar component last month I received a message from our client indicating that occasionally the events they were entering into Forge were showing up the next day in the calendar, even though they had the correct date displayed when you viewed them independently. Upon doing a little investigating I realized that this was only happening on events that took place later in the day and concluded that there must be a time zone issue. Ruby on Rails stores all timestamp fields in UTC and then processes them on retrieval to display the correct date and time for your given time zone. Read more...

The CBC nightly news in Toronto recently did a short piece on the GeoTrail website, check it out below! Read more...

Last year, against my better judgement, I joined a ball hockey team.   I've always liked hockey, but as a small kid who couldn't skate well and hated mornings, playing it just seemed to be one of those things that wasn't for me.   Still, when my friend told me he was starting a team that played on Sunday afternoons and didn't require any skating I figured "why not" and signed up. Read more...

Life in the web game is a lot like Law & Order.   Like the criminal justice system, the world of web development is split between two separate yet equally important groups: the designers who create the look and feel of a website, and the programmers who make it work.   Actually, that's pretty much the only way it's like Law & Order. Read more...