Certain color combinations can make your eyes water, others can make your eyes practically leap out of their sockets in delight. Colors can help instill confidence in a product, company, or design—or undermine it. Color can set the mood, or destroy it. Color can make you fit in, or stand out—and it depends on your […]
Aaaand we’re back. Phew! It’s about to be the new year and I want 2007 to be far and away the Year of Slash7. Or at least, the best year so far. I’ve been at work spiffing things up, writing new articles, and so on, but I realized that I may be out of touch […]
Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not —boy, are you in for a treat. This article has something for everyone from beginners to experts. Learn, laugh, cry, and become a more effective Rails developer. Read the article
It’s so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety—its half-life, if you will—they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the […]
Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not—boy, are you in for a treat. The console lets you fiddle with parts of your Rails app—models especially—in a real-time environment, instead of waiting for page reloads and clicking on links and using object dumps […]
My friend Davey sent me an IM today about a thing (company? event?) called MacHeist. I’m sure he’s mentioned them before but honestly, I didn’t really pay attention… I’ve been way too busy to keep up on cool shareware lately. But this time around, I took notice because MacHeist is currently selling a $49 “super […]
