Category Archives: Web Development

Ruby on Rails 1.2 Released!

I watched a recording of David Heinemeier Hansson Rails Conference 2006 Keynote Address not too long ago and got me pretty interested in the newer way of thinking and programming for web applications.
The new version of Ruby on Rails that has the new features that David Heinemeier talked about in his keynote address finally released. [...]

hListing

While I was looking for designs and thoughts for the new design I’m working on for work and I ran into the hListing proposal from Microformats.org and thought it would be handy for parsing the generated code and possibly for the organization of class and id names to a more standard way and it should [...]

Whitespace

It’s always nice to find articles still talking about techniques on how much whitespace helps with readability and giving a more polished look and feel to a web site by adding macro and micro whitespace. Some examples were made in the A List Apart article Whitespace by Mark Boulton.
I like the example he uses with [...]

Smack Shopping

I was told to check out Jellyfish.com because they had an interesting way of selling stuff. Where there are offers of the day and the price starts at the highest price then gradually drops in price till it hits $0 and people can buy it at that moment until there are no more products left.
The [...]

Dumbness of Crowds

I thought The “Dumbness of Crowds” was an interesting article because I’ve always heard of a large number of people trying to create something becomes bland and not innovative or basically the collective intelligence of people are dumb. But then that comes to question on how community web sites work on a large scale and [...]