Good programmers know that a lack of superficial code quality and consistency is the best indicator of deeper systemic problems...

cxpartners has an interesting eye tracking study on form design. They distill the results into a few simple guidelines which...

Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with clean & simple API. Mockito...

The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection...

Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try...

The minimum bar for a reliable service is not that you have done a backup, but that you have done...

The landscape of web typography is changing quickly these days. We’ve gone from the wild west days of sIFR...

For a long time on the web, we’ve been typographically spoilt. Yes, you heard me correctly. Think about it...

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a...

Template inliner avoids the problem when to render a large list of objects,

Using the Re library, that regular expression can be built incrementaly from smaller, easier to understand expressions.

MailStyle allows you to write the css for your html emails as you normally would, then writes the styles inline...

The aim of these tutorials is to show budding programmers how they can turn their creative desires into fully fledged...

Rails 2.3 has a ton of really nice functionality locked up in monolithic components. I’ve posted quite a bit...

This means Basecamp migrated from the first Rails release up to the edge one. So how come people say so...

I am sick of hearing people say, “Oh, I love your code, I wish I could do that.” You can...

sing Google’s JavaScript Library CDN comes with a 1/3 of a second tax on missing. (Note that a tax...

Lots of hidden costs.

A global h2 style probably isn’t going to last more than a month before everyone starts changing it inline...

Helium accepts a list of URLs for different sections of a site then loads and parses each page to build...