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Date: 2010-09-06 07:39:36
My new article about Rails best practices: Filters and helpers file

Date: 2010-09-06 06:30:13
I recently saw the new HTML5 Search input element and wondered what the heck it does: PLAIN TEXT HTML: Chris Coyier has posted an in-depth artic...

Date: 2010-09-06 06:00:44
This tutorial is based on a simple animated experiment that showcases just one of the amazing things you can create using CSS. I’ve used no ima...

Date: 2010-09-06 04:13:40

Date: 2010-09-06 00:00:00
Scott Mitchell presents a store locator application using ASP.NET MVC and the Google Map geocoding service.

Date: 2010-09-05 21:30:53
I have heard many people saying that if they create view and index on it, this will reduce the load on original table as all the subsequent queries on...

Date: 2010-09-05 20:00:00
In this series of articles, you will learn how to integrate the famous 3D Engine - Balder into your Silverlight applications. Since there are few docu...

Date: 2010-09-05 00:00:00
Greg Duncan found a cool tutorial on using Pex and Moles to unit test ASP.NET applications.

Date: 2010-09-04 21:30:05
I was recently delivered fast track data warehouse training. This training was very challenging as this training requires very specific hardware and e...

Date: 2010-09-04 16:05:31
Today, we’d like to announce that we’ve moved the Official jQuery Podcast off the jQuery blog and onto it’s own site at http://podcast.jquery.co...

Date: 2010-09-04 07:48:57
Other MSDN Flash Poll #7 – Visual Studio Add-Ins, Mike Ormond Using the multiple NICs of your File Server running Windows Server 2008 (and 20...

Date: 2010-09-04 00:00:00
Intellitrace is a great new feature in Visual Studio 2010, but it does have some performance impacts on debugging. Xinyang Qiu shows how to modify the...

Date: 2010-09-03 23:07:57
I have wrote a article DRY bundler in capistrano, it just gives you a notice that there are built-in capistrano tasks existed in Bundler 1.0.

Date: 2010-09-03 23:02:55

Date: 2010-09-03 14:16:20
Just released a new version of Radix, the base conversion library. The new version adds a Radix::Number class so numbers in alternate bases can be han...

Date: 2010-09-03 13:17:35
ZeroMQ is a network library which provides a much needed layer of abstraction on top of the traditional BSD socket API: transport agnostic, connection...

Date: 2010-09-03 12:49:39

Date: 2010-09-03 08:00:54
The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be...

Date: 2010-09-03 06:30:58
Personal outsourcing isn’t quite the hot topic that it was two years ago. With virtual assistant firms available left and right, could-be assist...

Date: 2010-09-03 06:30:49
Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of eleme...

Date: 2010-09-03 00:00:00
An increasing number of sites and applications are relying on complex systems of JavaScript resources and many developers are hoping for easier, faste...

Date: 2010-09-02 21:30:47
Just a day ago, I was reading the blog post of Michale J Swart. If you are a regular reader of this blog, I am sure you will be familiar with him. He...

Date: 2010-09-02 21:20:07
By Dion Almaer webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog At our last Palm...

Date: 2010-09-02 19:27:50
The latest episode of coderpath was released today, with an interview with Gregg Pollack.

Date: 2010-09-02 17:40:44

Date: 2010-09-02 17:32:35
Do you know that you can use the new Rails 3 HTML 5 helpers to get unobtrusive client-side validations in an instant? Read this!

Date: 2010-09-02 16:54:23

Date: 2010-09-02 16:25:24
Everybody wants to use CSS 3 now that even Internet Explorer will support parts of it once IE 9 is out. But since parts of CSS 3 are still subject to...

Date: 2010-09-02 10:12:28

Date: 2010-09-02 09:04:17
Learn in a minute how to deploy your Rails 3 applications like in Heroku with Inploy.

Date: 2010-09-02 07:47:31
94 and sunny today but hurricane Earl coming this weekend to the Boston area … bummer dude. Starting the day with reading some good fundamentals st...

Date: 2010-09-02 06:30:49
Want to increase your website's conversion rate? How about doing less work while you're at it? Focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the...

Date: 2010-09-02 06:30:40
I stumbled on the Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat project recently: Drumbeat gathers smart, creative people like you around big ideas, practical p...

Date: 2010-09-02 01:49:24

Date: 2010-09-02 00:00:00
Stephen Naughton demonstrates how you can do some complex work in an ASP.NET Dynamic Data Field Template by leveraging the magical ExtractValues overr...

Date: 2010-09-01 22:44:37
Webpulp.tv posted it's latest video interview with Kevin Smith. The interview covers CAP theorem, Riak, and ways to scale your app.

Date: 2010-09-01 21:44:16
We just released RailsDeveloper, which gives developers a place to share resources, ask questions, help others, review books, watch videos, and contro...

Date: 2010-09-01 21:30:23
In my earlier article SQLAuthority News – Training and Consultancy and Travel – Story of Last 30 Days I had mentioned that I prefer to do 50% cons...

Date: 2010-09-01 20:26:02
In this tutorial, I described the steps I did to deploy a simple Rails 3 application to Tomcat using JRuby. In addition, I show a way to make your Rai...

Date: 2010-09-01 20:00:00
This article shows how to use the Facebook graph_api (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api) in a windows phone 7 (wp7) Silverlight application. All...

Date: 2010-09-01 19:08:48

Date: 2010-09-01 17:27:32
SaaS buyers shouldn’t settle for the limited horizons of single-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the ideal architecture to make the most of the cloud e...

Date: 2010-09-01 09:08:43

Date: 2010-09-01 08:24:47
Remember phones? (yes those things you text with.) Anis Ahmad recently blogged about how he created a Zend_Form_Element to wrap not only the display b...

Date: 2010-09-01 06:30:59
There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use...

Date: 2010-09-01 06:30:57
Google Rich Snippet Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microforma...

Date: 2010-09-01 00:00:00
Bill McCafferty announces the release of S#arp Architecture 1.6, including Fluent NHibernate 1.1 and client side validation.

Date: 2010-08-31 21:30:43
Today I am very happy as my daughter is one year old. I have no words to explain how lucky I am to be father of daughter. She is everything to me and...

Date: 2010-08-31 21:30:05
I wrote an article Put scripts at the bottom, it is a small trick, but really helpful to speed up the pages render. I also give an example for adding...

Date: 2010-08-31 20:56:14
Simple tutorial about how to enable devise to allow facebook login.