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 […]
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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. […]
On his site, The Oatmeal, designer Matthew Inman has created a comic strip /*slash*/ poster entitled, How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell. In this hilarious and all-too-true scenario, the client continues to make more and more horrific changes to the design. Under each subsequent “suggestion,” Inman has inserted […]
This will please many web developers. A recent survey by AptiQuant, a psychometric consulting company based in Canada, has concluded that Internet Explorer users have a lower Intelligence Quotient than users of other browsers. Those with IE6 scored little over 80. Firefox, Chrome and Safari users fared better at 110. […]
Google has announced their new Page Speed Service. In essence, it’s a combination of proxy servers, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and web page optimizers which Google states will produce speed gains of 25-60% for most websites. The service is being offered to a limited set of web developers at no […]
I imagine most people these days use a service to remember their countless credentials that have built up over the course of their internet career. I use LastPass and while looking for the Android browser extension I stumbled on Dolphin HD. I was out and about and needed credentials for […]
By Jason Beaird 28th Jul 2011 Typography Tutorial 8 When you type text into any reasonably modern word processing program, even though your keyboard key shows that ubiquitous ASCII double quote symbol, you see nice “curly” opening and closing punctuation marks when you hit it. These special quotes can’t be found […]