Sublime Text 2 Is Awesome
I forgot to mention that I have recently switched my text editor to Sublime Text 2. At first glance it is very much like Vico and TextWrangler, but there is one extension that makes it much more unique. Once you install Package Control, the editor transforms into a power-house. The...
Js2coffee: convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript
I was having trouble converting plain javascript to coffeescript, then I found Js2coffee.
Try Git
I've been using git for versioning for some time now. But for those of you who are starting out and want to jump right into it, Codeschool has a nice online class for you: http://try.github.com/
CoffeeScript: A New Way of Looking
You could say CoffeeScript goes hand in hand with Ruby on Rails development. Here is a quick and nice syntax intro to CoffeeScript. RubySource | CoffeeScript: A New Way of Looking at ThingsRubySource: CoffeeScript allows human programmers to write code in an easily understandable form. The compiler then translates the...
Data Scraping With Ruby
If you are looking for a way to scrape data off of websites that do not have an API, here is a simple how-to video for it. Data Scraping And More With Ruby, Nokogiri, Sinatra And Heroku - Hunter Powers: Data scraping is the process of extracting data from output...
Moving away from PHP
This is exactly why I am moving away from GoDaddy and PHP. Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity: I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because – okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.</p> You pull out a screwdriver, and...
Simulating Low Bandwidth For Local Web Development
It is important to know how a webpage would load on another person's computer, especially when it involves AJAX and page scripting. It may work properly and load as fast as it is, this is not the case on another machine with another configuration. Therefore, it is essential to be...
Talking Piano
Using different keys of the piano, Peter Ablinger plays a digitized sound recording of a child on a Talking Piano: