Archive for January, 2009

Why I’m using Skribit

Posted on 18 January 2009 View Comments

If you haven’t noticed yet I have added a new item in the right sidebar called Skribit. Skribit essentially is a blog topic suggestion application developed by Paul Stamatiou. Paul is a recent graduate of Georgia Tech and is now working on Skribit full time. If you haven’t checked out his blog yet, I’d definitely [...]

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Tooltips in CSS

Posted on 14 January 2009 View Comments

A tooltip is a small box that appear near an object in a graphical user interface when a pointer or other cursor controlled by a mouse passes over or rests on that object and which contains a brief text message identifying or explaining the object. In the context of a website the information shown in [...]

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Rails Envy – Ruby on Rails vs. Django Commercial

Posted on 13 January 2009 View Comments

This is an oldie, but a goodie. I recently saw this posted on Reddit and thought it was funny enough that I would share it here as well. In 2007 at the Lone Star Ruby Conference, the ever hilarious guys over at Rails Envy premiered a commercial they made imitating the Mac vs. PC commercials [...]

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Getting Started With Rails Migrations Part 1: Creating Migrations

Posted on 13 January 2009 View Comments

A migration is simply a Ruby source file in your application’s db/migrate directory. These files help to make small changes to the database extremely easy and quick. Want to add a table or rename a column? Write another migration and run rake db:migrate. With automatic versioning you are able to see the changes made to [...]

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Getting Started With Ruby on Rails: Resources (Paid and Free)

Posted on 11 January 2009 View Comments

I have gone through all of my Ruby on Rails resources and have come up with a list of what I think are the best resources to get you started with your Ruby on Rails journey. This will be the first of a few lists about Ruby on Rails I will be posting over the [...]

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