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Craig takes a look at the new features in Firebug 1.9, the world's best-known browser development console.Read More
 
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Craig reveals a selection of new cursor styles which are available in CSS3 and can be used in most modern browsers.Read More
 
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What will the next 12 months bring? Cross Clairvoyant Craig's palm with silver and he'll give you a glimpse into the future for all web developers...Read More
 
When I first came across Heroku it was a Ruby-only cloud service. I wasn’t a Ruby developer so I quickly forgot about it. But then they partnered with Facebook and you could create a Facebook app... Read More
 
Chef is billed as “A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure”. It doesn’t matter how many times I read that, I... Read More
Sometimes the idea for an article strikes me out-of-the-blue, like a lightning bolt or an airborne toxin. The quality of these sudden onset ideas varies greatly, and it usually directly proportional... Read More
You’ve probably noticed a few articles as of late on SitePoint and its properties discuss Heroku and their offerings; they’re definitely shaking things up in the cloud services arena! In fact, I... Read More
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Craig reveals how you can run WebGL applications in Firefox even if your graphics card has been blacklisted. It's dangerous, but worth the risk to play X-Wing!Read More
 
 
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This simple 5 step tutorial will create a working Rails 3.1 app using Twitter Bootstrap Last month I discussed all of the different gems that are available for integrating Twitter Bootstrap with a... Read More
 
Building authentication for applications is a run of the mill task we have all encountered at some point or another. In the past, most developers would have reached into their tool belt and pulled... Read More
In the previous article we thinly disguised a Rack tutorial as a comparison of PHP and Ruby. The aim of the article was to point out that most PHP developers start out on a pretty well thought out... Read More
Twitter Bootstrap is a great way to quickly build a very polished web site. By now, we’ve all seen Twitter Bootstrap – it’s a great CSS and Javascript library open sourced by Twitter that... Read More
To some, cutting gems is considered an art for the minerally inclined. In the Ruby world, however, gem cutting is a matter of life. Creating RubyGems can be easy , but also a trap for a novice. By... Read More
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We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series , I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will... Read More