Once you start introducing partial updates, you open yourself for caching problems. doing partial updates means all cached copies of...
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve...
Pocket Informant for the iPhone doesn't just simply let you view your daily events but lets you really work...
Noel Rappin discusses ways to keep up with edge Rails.
Learn everything you need to know about Scaling your Rails app through 13 informative Screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack with...
Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish...
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and...
If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in...
Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...
JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting...
A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really...
The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that...
I did want to drop a quick picture here of their trial usage dialog that pops up as it’s...
The ability to update and close Trac tickets associated with a given repo whenever a commit is made to that...
Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client...
Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Javascript Framework (version 1.6.0.2 at the moment) and inspired by...
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your...
Jasmin is an assembler for the Java Virtual Machine. It takes ASCII descriptions of Java classes, written in a simple...
Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user...
Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. It takes any number of source files and...
It turned out that the test subject didn't know that longdesc even existed before the tester told him about...