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Becoming a Sexy Programmer: Menus 61 days ago Read More 
There are many ways that you can create menus for your website. The way I used to do it was by using tables and having a menu item for every menu item. This way I had come to find out...
Becoming a Sexy Programmer: Slideshows 64 days ago Read More
As a Rails programmer, I have been using Prototype and scriptaculous for over a year and a half, solely because it comes packages with Rails and has helpers. About 3 months ago, I discovered JQuery...
Sexy layouts for the not-so-sexy programmer 67 days ago Read More
I've worked with a ton of programmers in the past, and most of them don't know a lot about web design. My brother, for example, is an insanely good programmer. However, every time I see his web app...
Simplify your error tracking with HopToad 75 days ago Read More
I recently ran in to a blog article which referenced an online application called HopToad (http://www.hoptoadapp.com). HopToad is an online application that plugs directly into your Rails applicati...
Polygamous assert_latest 85 days ago Read More
Polygamous and explicitly-associated assert_latest{} blocks work great in integration tests and end-to-end tests. Short test cases must call a whole lot of code, and then assert that all of it crea...
Inspect My SQL 86 days ago Read More
inspect_sql helps one of TDD's major strengths. It helps tests make your code's internals more visible.
Growl Driven Development 86 days ago Read More
Using Whisper Driven Development, you type a little, you hit a button to save all files (we configured F5), and you keep typing. When you hear "yeah", you know your last save contained good code - ...
Ruby Mendicant : Prawn's First Release! 120 days ago Read More
I'm happy to announce I just cut the first alpha release of Prawn. It is chock full of features, and since the release notes are fairly detailed with good links, I've just pasted them for your revi...
Ruby Mendicant: Permian Prawn 145 days ago Read More
I'm happy to announce that the Prawn PDF library has hit another milestone on the Ruby Mendicant project roadmap. This time we'll look at Prawn's shiny new table drawing support, as well as some of...
Ruby Mendicant: Proterozoic Prawn 178 days ago Read More
Continuing on a theme, this post brings you the latest news from Prawn, the Ruby PDF library currently being developed under the auspices of the Ruby Mendicant project. The news this time around fo...
