I had the opportunity to give a presentation on CSS Metaframeworks at Dallas.rb last week. We discussed CSS, Sass, Compass, LessCSS, xCSS, Blueprint, and 960.gs. Here are the video and slides.
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Sneak peek: tail -f thechangelog
I wanted to give you my readers (all five of you) a sneak peek at a little something Adam and I have been working on over at The Changelog.
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Quick tip: Use APIdock to hunt down missing methods
From time to time, we all to have step into older projects and add features. Suddenly that old standby method you’d come to love is giving you a method_missing. How do you go about finding out which version of Rails introduced it so you can upgrade or monkey patch? APIdock has your back.
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The Twitter gem now supports Tumblr
On the heels of the announcement that Tumblr now supports the Twitter API, we’re happy to say the Twitter gem now supports Tumblr!
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Use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site
In case you missed it, Adam and I launched a new blog and are six episodes into a new podcast where we bring you what’s fresh and new in open source software. Our goal is to scour the depths of GitHub (and other sources) to highlight the cool new and newly released open source projects. As the good folks at Github recently highlighted, one of my favorite features of the blog is the GitHub integration. Here’s how to use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site.
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Enhance your site search with OpenSearch
If your web site provides its own search function, set up OpenSearch to let your users search from the browser search box. Read More »