AprilApr 2 Thursday 09
Design Patterns in Ruby
If you have been programming for any extended period of time, I am sure you have started to see different patterns emerging out of your tasks. You may find you are doing the same thing over and over again, solving problems that you had previously solved in another …
MayMay 15 Thursday 08
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Book Review)
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka is part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series and does an excellent job of teaching Ruby on Rails through a hands-on, real world application. …
Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP (Book Review)
Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP by Jaimie Sirovich and Christian Darie is a very thorough resource and tutorial on how to optimize your website for search engines, using PHP as your programming language of choice. If you are a Search Engine …
Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference (Book Review)
Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference by David Schultz and Craig Cook is an excellent beginners introduction to HTML and CSS. Through each of the eleven chapters the authors walk through the basics and foundation of HTML. For those …
Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries (Book Review)
Accelerated DOM Scripting, Ajax, APIs, and Libraries by Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, and Dan Webb is not just another book on DOM scripting. There are many excellent DOM scripting and JavaScript books available to us as developers. Some …
My BookStack
Nathan Smith has inspired to me to share my current book stack. I find that I like to read several books at a time. While I have my head in several books, there are many books that I keep just a few feet away while I work. Programming Ruby and The Ruby Way are …
One Month App is launched
At Clear Function we have been working on our One Month App for the past...month. We officially launched Pulse last evening. Hop on over to check it out. Have some feedback? You can e-mail us or post it to the One Month App website.
![[Screenshot: Pulse Cash Flow Management]](/images/pulseapp-com.jpg)
So, what is …
Mobile Web Design (Book Review)
Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll is a very small, but concise and thorough, book on designing for the mobile web. This book does not teach methods for designing for mobile devices, but the options available to use as web developers. Cameron does a great job …
The Rails Way (Book Review)
The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez is an extremely thorough book about Ruby on Rails. Addison-Wesley has another book that has always been by my side as a reference while programming Ruby: The Ruby Way. I love this book for its depth and attention to detail. …
Upcoming Reviews and Reflect Beta Update
I have spent the past few months working on our upcoming CMS, Reflect, and unfortunately my writing here has taken a back-seat to getting this project ready for launch. I have still been reading some excellent books, and the reviews for those books will get …
Wordpress 1.5.1 includes security fix
Glad to be in my new digital home. (#)
Stop using AJAX!
(#)"Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for the web was all about universal access; and the technologies involved - such as HTTP and HTML - were designed to be platform and device agnostic; it shouldn't matter what kind of technology you use to access the web."
Announcing Reflect pricing
"The private beta is just around the corner and we've had several questions about what the Reflect pricing will be like." We would appreciate any feedback. (via)
Feedburner, can you hear me?
With my recent switch to Reflect, Feedburner seemed to have lost my RSS Feed. I am hoping all is back to normal now. The new feed is up and pointing to the new content.
Let me know if I am broadcasting loud and clear.
Spring Cleaning
I have been wanting to change this site for some time now, and with a recent server move I decided to make some more changes. The site is no longer powered by Wordpress (though it served me well for the past few years). I am now on Reflect, the content …
XHTML is a joke
In a recent post entitled XHTML is a joke, Felix gives his reasoning as to why he feels XHTML is more of a hype.
Combating burnout
"Working when you're burnt out usually produces junk work; work that could have been so much more with your head in the game." (via)
Rails for PHP developers
Are you a PHP programmer interested in taking a peak at Ruby and Ruby on Rails? Be sure to check out Rails for PHP Developers. It even has a full PHP reference that maps all of the PHP functions to their Ruby/Rails counterpart.
On a side note, I apologize for …
KISSing is for the experienced
"Trying to apply KISS when getting into a new technology is STUPID. Writing the most succinct and simple code is only possible if you know all nuances of what you are working with. Otherwise your simplicity will be based on wrong assumptions and lead to buggy …
Twitter said to be abandoning Rails
"But let's be real for one minute. Twitter doesn't suck because of Rails. Twitter sucks because they have ridiculous amounts of traffic (especially to their API and SMS gateways), a limited ability to cache (a non-realtime Twitter is a pretty useless Twitter), …