In the end, the structure of data is something fundamental that can't be simplified or abstracted away. The ORM...

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Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just...

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Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other. With a unique angle on GUI development, Limelight harnesses the...

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

Learn how to set up a one-to-many or many-to-many association which is entirely embedded into a...

A rails plugin to store a collection of boolean attributes in a single ActiveRecord column as a bit field.

I cringe every time I hear about someone who has spent years writing their ‘killer app’, but still hasn’t...

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

Are you still adding printf/puts calls and restarting your app to figure what went wrong

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

We say “back in time”, and “back” feel like “left” to me, not right. So let’s break that standard...

Finally a Java framework made by Web developers. Discover a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. Play focuses on...

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...

Joe Programmer: That guy is such an asshole.

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