Up to this point in the Rails Deep Dive series, we’ve focused on digging down into the entrails of the framework, attempting to uncover some of the ways that Rails accomplishes its magic. Going forward, I want to create a Rails 3.1 application, focusing on how I would setup up […]
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By Simon Pascal Klein 19th Aug 2011 Podcast, User Experience Inspiration 0 I catch up with Design Festival author Dennis Lembrée this week to chat about web accessibility, podcasting, and an accessible Twitter front-end he wrote called EasyChirp. Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone […]
In this, the final in this series of posts about Android Widgets, we will build on the previous articles by taking our periodically updating widget and adding a background service to fetch data from the network. To make things easy for ourselves, we’ll show the most recent Tweet from a […]
Yes, seriously. Despite being less than two months old, Firefox 5 is obsolete. Mozilla released Firefox 6 on August 16 2011. As you’d expect, there are a number of bug-fixes but the list of new features is fairly lightweight. It’s Faster Mozilla claim the new browser is 20% faster than […]
Haml is an XHTML Abstraction Markup Language that, according to haml-lang.com: functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB It can be used in many Ruby frameworks, such as Rails and Sinatra, in Node.js, PHP and .NET. This article is going to introduce you […]
By Gordon Currie 15th Aug 2011 Logo Design 0 In Part 1 of The Inside Secrets of Logo Development, we talked about basic techniques on working with clients looking for a corporate logo and tips for bidding project work. We also discussed specific advanced techniques that help position you as […]
The next cab off the authentication rank is Flickr. In the preceding posts you’ll have already seen a couple of implementations of OAuth 1. Unfortunately whilst Flickr claims that they implement OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A it would appear that this is not the case for Windows Phone applications. Instead […]
If you have been writing PHP for a few years you will no doubt have come across Interfaces and Abstract classes. They were introduced in PHP5 object model and since have had medium usage in the PHP world. If you Google “PHP Interfaces” you will get some results on the […]
I never really have cared for sports, but I didn’t really understand why, until one hot afternoon a few summers ago as I watched my youngest son’s baseball team play the championship game. They had managed to beat out a much better team to reach the playoffs, and now, midway […]