Not all icons in the Finder are created equal. There are the normal file and folder icons. Then there are disk icons, which appear in the same context as normal icons, but behave differently. Then there are the proxy icons in window title bars. Then there are the quasi-alias icons in the Dock or the Finder sidebar - but even among the Finder sidebar icons, there are differences. These non-obvious inconsistencies are confusing to new users

For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub-system does not care why the card is there, or how it got there. It is entirely a dumb client.

Rake tasks to run specs and tests in parallel, to use multiple CPUs and speedup test runtime.

HotKey provides functionality similar to the accesskey attribute, but has many enhancements that allow for more granular control when creating keyboard driven interfaces.

Despite the many JavaScript libraries that are available today, I cannot find one that makes it easy to add keyboard shortcuts(or accelerators) to your javascript app. This is because keyboard shortcuts where only used in JavaScript games - no serious web application used keyboard shortcuts to navigate around its interface. But Google apps like Google Reader and Gmail changed that. So, I have created a function to make adding shortcuts to your application much easier.

hat's the dirty little secret of our industry; green screen apps are usually pretty darn fast. They aren't simple, though. They are designed for trained users, users who have long since added their app usage patterns to their muscle memory.

An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles, is the film screenplay.

With Scrippets, you can add boxes of nicely-formatted script to your blog. It even works in comments.

Named arguments for Ruby constructors.

Read_from_slave for Rails enables database reads from a slave database, while writes continue to go to the master

FastImage Resize is an extremely light solution for resizing images in ruby by using libgd

Freemium is a bad marketing plan for any premium business that hopes to be the differentiated provider.

There will always be a company that replaces you. At some point your BlackSwan competitor will appear and they will kick your ass. Their product will be better or more interesting or just better marketed than yours, and it also will be free.

Highslide JS is an open source image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript.

iUI is a framework consisting of a JavaScript library, CSS, and images for developing iPhone webapps.

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Rails extensions to simplify internationalization

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

Following Apple’s lead, avoiding modes has been an important design goal in all modern computer systems.

One problem I've seen with spreadsheets and with GUI designers is that they do a good job of revealing what a program does, but de-emphasizes program structure. As a result complicated spreadsheets and UI panels are often difficult to understand and modify.

Most developers I know use AML: Arbitrary Markup Language, usually consisting of boxes, circles, and lines. When a given developer writes on a whiteboard, they write in their own version of a diagramming language.

The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do, we can produce software without having to pay those annoying software craftsman ridiculous amounts of money

Here are eight things my team has found to be true after working with Cucumber for about 6 months.