Perl
Maybe customizing Twitter Bootstrap’s designlike this wasn’t such a good idea! Back in November I discussed various options for integrating Twitter Bootstrap into a Rails 3.1 app, including... Read More
If you’ve ever tried to read code written by someone other than yourself (who hasn’t?), you know it can be a daunting task. A jumble of “spaghetti code” mixed with numerous oddly named... Read More
Exit, Stage Left Every time you enter an irb session, boot a ruby script, or run a test runner you’re starting up a process. This goes for anything on your system, not just Ruby code. For... Read More
Imagine a friend of yours approaches you one day and would like you to build her a website so she can showcase her photography. She wants to be able to easily upload her photographs and have them... Read More
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
Location-based applications are all the rage. What used to be prohibitively expensive GPS devices are now sitting in the of pockets of a great many people, embedded within smartphones and other... Read More
In Part 4 you learned how to use gettext for one of the most complex aspects of localization a developer can face, plural forms. In this, the final part of the five-part series, I’ll teach you how... Read More
You have your big players in the cloud like Amazon and Rackspace. Then, there’s Liquid Web with Storm On Demand . They are relatively new to the cloud computing scene but, they aren’t a new... Read More
Ruby golf is the art of writing code that uses as few characters as possible. The idea originates in the world of Perl (where it is, unsurprisingly, known as Perl Golf). As a language, Perl is well... Read More
You’re probably already familiar with PHP’s if statement. It’s very similar to its counterparts in many other programming languages and represents one of the most fundamental concepts in... Read More
