Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Jeff
So Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack have turned their podcasting talents towards making screencasts. They call them envycasts. I’m a regular listener of the podcast and enjoy their lighthearted style so when Gregg was looking for reviewers of their latested episode, I jumped at the chance.
I’m not going to cover all the Rails goodness present [...]
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Filed under: Rails, reviews
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Jeff
Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too.
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Filed under: webdev
Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Jeff
There’s an emphasis in the Rails community on testing as you write your code. So much so that the built in code generators will generate unit tests right alongside your models. You can even generate integration tests too.
So here we are, merrily generating models, controllers and more. We’re writing code, writing tests and even running [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Jeff
Joel Spolsky, of Joel On Software fame, recently wrote about web standards. Now, I’m a regular reader of Joel’s blog and usually find some nuggets of wisdom there, especially when it comes to running a business. However, on the subject of doctype and standardistas, he’s dead wrong.
DOCTYPE is a myth.
A mortal web designer who attaches [...]
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Filed under: Editorial, webdev
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Jeff
If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout [...]
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