Parker Smith Software

 

Welcome

We find that people are amazed at what the right technology can accomplish for them. That’s why we created Parker Smith, a software development firm that pushes the envelope. If innovation is the key to success, we can help you unlock a lot of doors.

The benefits of custom software aren’t only for the Fortune 500. We make sure they are accessible to any company, regardless of size or budget. It’s all about turning your clutter in clarity, your problems into solutions, and your ideas into reality.

News

Nov 05, 2008 - Parker Smith gets office space in Glassworks Building
Oct 20, 2008 - Parker Smith to develop fitness training application for Olympic champion

Featured Projects

Four Roses Bourbon

Four Roses Bourbon

This premium bourbon producer asked for a modern website to promote its historic brands.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails application development, XHTML/CSS development, Section 508 compliance, systems administration

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Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field, wanted a new personal website to display his athletic, acting and modeling career information.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails development, Hosting, Systems Administration

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Southeast Christian Church

Southeast Christian, one of the largest churches in the nation, wanted a method of sharing its media packages for various ministry programs with other Christian organizations across the country.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails application development, server administration

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Recent Blogs

May 28, 2009
background process manager script
We're working on a project right now that uses starling + workling for sending email in the background as well as daemons to send out send out periodic emails (also in the background). So in our development environment it quickly became a pain to start starling, then start the daemon every time someone started working on the project, then killing processes when you're done. We kept hitting errors in the code, only to realize that it was because the back...
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December 15, 2008
auto_complete in rails 2
In rails 2 the auto_complete functionality has been moved into a plugin, so to use it you will need to first install the plugin with: script/plugin install auto_complete Now you can use the same auto complete functionality you are used to by adding the auto_complete_for declaration to your controller. One last gotcha is the route, you will have to add it to your routes.rb. One thing that may help if you have quite a f...
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November 07, 2008
A script to make adding new GIT repos...
My friend Jesse and I were trying to figure out a way to make the process of working with new GIT repositories easier. We wanted to create a new GIT repository locally, creating a new remote repository and adding the remote to the local so that you can push your development changes out for others to collaborate with. This involves a number of commands locally, then logging into your server, creating folders and git repositories there, then adding the rem...
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