After ordering some Christmas gifts from Lands' End, the company asked if they could showcase our logo in future promotions - low and behold they did.

Check out the latest catalog to see the Plexus featured logo. Thanks to Matt Forshee & Amanda Fields from Fayette County Development Authority for spotting it!

MSNBC just began offering embed capabilities for the video footage they post on their site. You can include a clip in your blog by clicking on the embed button and copying and pasting the code into your blog just like the clip below on breast cancer:

So we're upgrading to Rails 2.0 for our new sites, and I found a problem with the way Engines (even the latest version as of today) interacts with Rails 2.0.

First load of my Rails Engines page (in a development site):

[machine] Everything works great!

Second load:

[machine] A copy of ApplicationController has been removed from the module tree but is still active!

[me] Crap.

Enter some help from the interwebs: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/137733

[me] Hooray!

Basically, I just had to add this to the init.rb file in each Engines plugin:

load_paths.each do |path|
  Dependencies.load_once_paths.delete(path)
end

Skitch makes it easy to capture and share images via email, chat and Web. Instead of typing a message to describe an image or screen, you can pull the image into skitch and enhance it on screen to convey your thoughts. Once you have worked with the image – adding text, using draw and paint tools, etc, you save it or drag it out of the Skitch window into your email, chat, desktop, etc. There is a setting called Webpost for you to save the image Web ready for upload to your Skitch.com page. From here, you can copy the url to pull it into a Web site or blog. Check it out at skitch.com.

Here is an example of Skitch - we used it to convey some thoughts about the Plexus home page.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Today marks the start of Plexus' online support ticket system, support.plexusweb.com. It's a great way for clients to submit tickets for any issues they are experiencing with their site or to let us know of any quick text changes or minor site updates you would like to make. Be sure to check it out and use it the next time you have a problem or need a change.