If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to...
So I thought it might be interesting to share with you the various stages of design the site went through...
FeedTools is a simple Ruby library for handling rss, atom, and cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching...
Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog...
As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of...
Asynchronous JavaScript and CSS, also known as CSSHttpRequest, is a method of URI-encoding data in 2KB chunks split over...
This article describes a technique for overriding the equals method that preserves the contract of equals even when subclassses of...
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the...
Or, you can test your Rack application (or Sinatra, or Rails, or Merb) using arbitrary HTTP client libraries, to check...
Trample is a more flexible load simulator. Instead of a static list of urls, trample's configuration language is ruby...
I just released a gem to find image dimensions and type information fast.
Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk...
Webbynode is a very affordable VPS host (256 RAM for $15) which has great support for Rails applications.
How to rescue a project without losing your mind.
Here are eight things my team has found to be true after working with Cucumber for about 6 months.
The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do...
Most developers I know use AML: Arbitrary Markup Language, usually consisting of boxes, circles, and lines. When a given developer...
One problem I've seen with spreadsheets and with GUI designers is that they do a good job of revealing...
Rails extensions to simplify internationalization
There will always be a company that replaces you. At some point your BlackSwan competitor will appear and they will...
Freemium is a bad marketing plan for any premium business that hopes to be the differentiated provider.
Read_from_slave for Rails enables database reads from a slave database, while writes continue to go to the master
With Scrippets, you can add boxes of nicely-formatted script to your blog. It even works in comments.
An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles...