Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github
How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.
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Overflow does some cool things you should know about.
iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails' standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-serv...
Generating and streaming ZIP archives on the fly
When your Rails application offers downloading a bunch of files as ZIP archive, you basically have two options:
- Write a ZIP file to disk and send it as a download to the user.
- Generate a ZIP archive on the fly while streaming it in chunks t...
Postgres: DISTINCT ON lets you select only one record per ordered attribute(s) for each group
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To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with the
DISTINCTstatement. - To retrieve the group wise maximum of certain columns: You can keep only one record fo...
Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender.
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Great Ruby on Rails REST resources
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other resources I have found so far.
How to fix gsub on SafeBuffer objects
If you have an html_safe string, you won't be able to call gsub with a block and match reference variables like $1. They will be nil inside the block where you define replacements ([as you already know](https://makandracards.com/makandra/2...
jQuery: How to attach an event handler only once
With "attaching an event handler once" you possibly mean one of these two things:
Register a function for an event, and discard it once that event has happened
Use one instead of on.
$(element).one('eventName', function() { ... });
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About PIE – CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
CSS Level 3 brings with it some incredibly powerful styling features. Rounded corners, soft drop shadows, gradient fills, and so on. These are the kinds of elements our designer friends love to use because they make for attractive sites, but are d...
The Ruby Object Model
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing for developers who have been programming in more static languages, such as Java or C#. This card should help understanding t...