Daily Archives: August 3, 2011

If it weren’t for Firebug, Firefox would not necessarily be the most popular web development browser. That said, without Firebug, we wouldn’t have great developer tools such as the webkit Inspector, Opera Dragonfly or IE’s Developer Tools. The tool is crammed with amazing features. I try to keep up with […]

There was a particular manager at the company whose name I’d heard several times, but I had yet to meet. Despite that, I felt like I knew him well, because, whenever his name came up in conversation, the typical reaction I heard was, “He’s a real a$$*#%! h@#!.” After about the […]

By Jennifer Farley 1st Aug 2011 Logo Design Inspiration 2 The Shift logo style’s roots lie in print rather than web design and they appear as transparent overlays of color. The shift look appears as letters or objects in RGB or CMYK, appearing as though they are misregistered or printed […]

I’ve changed the title of this series, starting with this post, because I like the sound of “Deep Dive” much more than “101.” The rails new command is probably the first bit of the Rails command line we all learned. Give it an application name, and that command will create […]

I’m fascinated by ciphers. There is a great book on code breaking by Simon Singh called The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. The book is full of different encoding methods people have used throughout the ages to hide their secret messages. This book […]

It is with great satisfaction that I introduce the “Switching to Ruby From .NET” series at RubySource. In this post I’ll explain what you should expect from this series. Hopefully I am here for a while, so I’ll tell you a little bit about who I am and my background. […]