InterWorks Blog - Web Development

It Takes a Team to Create a Website

Thursday, September 8, 2011
A potential client recently asked me, "Why does it take a team and sometimes even a significant budget to build a great website?" Without hesitation, the answer was simple: There are simply too many ...  [ More ] ...

Viewing the $form and $form_state arrays when working with Webforms

Monday, March 1, 2010
Recently I was working on an additional validation script for a webform on a client's site. It was particularly frustrating because I couldn't seem to locate the variable I needed for my validation. ...  [ More ] ...

Read Only Radio Button

Friday, February 19, 2010
Consider the following situation: you would like a set of radio buttons on a form that will have a value preselected. You don’t want to give the user the option to change the selected radio button, ...  [ More ] ...

Force Regeneration of the Designer.cs File

Friday, February 12, 2010
At times while developing an ASP.NET project you may run into the following error in your code behind file: The name 'controlName' does not exist in the current context Often this is simply a case ...  [ More ] ...

Simple Command Line Trash

Thursday, February 11, 2010
Do you hang out on the command line a good amount of time? Do you execute rm [-rf] on a regular basis? Have you ever wished that the file was moved to the trash instead (when you realize it at a ...  [ More ] ...

Rails 3 Beta and Bundler Gem Error

Sunday, February 7, 2010
If you checked out the Rails 3 beta recently and tried running a rake task after generating your app, there is a probably a good chance you came across the following at your command prompt: undefined ...  [ More ] ...

Server Application Unavailable – Troubleshooting Generic ASP.NET & IIS Errors Using Event Viewer

Friday, January 29, 2010
At times, debugging cryptic IIS and ASP.NET error messages can be quite frustrating. I recently ran into the following generic error message when deploying an ASP.NET site to a new test environment: ...  [ More ] ...

A better way to handle variables when nesting CFLOOP

Thursday, January 28, 2010
If you try to reference a value from the outer query within a nested CFLOOP you normally get only the first value from the outer query rather than the value of the current row. In the past a common ...  [ More ] ...

The risks of Register Globals

Monday, January 11, 2010
If you're listed as the technical contact for your company's website, there's a good chance that you'll receive a letter from your hosting company announcing that they will be turning off " ...  [ More ] ...

Web Development Services for Agencies

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Those of you working with InterWorks already know this secret:  We do a great deal of web development services for advertising, branding and marketing agencies.  It isn't necessarily a ...  [ More ] ...