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So far we have a few useful principles to follow during web and generally software development. Everyone remembers the DRY, KISS and all that. Let me add my own little gem to the list. It's called MY and focuses on modern or old source control. It's so obvious that I'm sure you already aware of it.

This will be quick. My favorite designer recently rewamped his site, Stuff and Nonsense. I spotted a few obvious things that you can steal from the CSS but just realized a good UX idea over there. If you click a link on that site, a small effect happens emulating a button press. I think it can be us

I'm playing with a very plain user interface, a form where you can set some data about planning your next trip with your friends. I'm just playing ok? The form contains a few text input elements, selects and a textarea. Nothing special.But recently I've seen a new CSS framework (will give you a link

I always wanted to interview people that I admire for great ideas and code. Here comes one with Ola Bini. For those who live under a frogs butt Ola Bini is a JRuby developer at ThoughtWorks Studios. He is working on an exciting new language, Ioke. The interview is originally made for the Hungarian d

It was a great joy to talk about my experiments with JRuby and Google's Appengine, so I decided to share my slides here as well.JRuby on AppengineView more presentations from yaanno.

Just seen Luis Lavena's posting and his Pledgie fundraising.Luis is a smart and kind Ruby hacker from South America working on a better Windows acceptance and working environment. He brought you the fresh new Ruby installer, a great Rake toolkit and a bunch of stuff that can help you guys bound to t

I'd like to share two excellent presentations from DjangoCon 2008 that gave me inspirations for the future (see more at Google Developers channel).The first one is held by James Bennett a well known Python/Django hacker.The second one is by James Tauber, master of the Pinax project.I thought I under

Recently I heard the Heroku buzz from every direction. To put it simply Heroku is a fully (I mean completely fully) managed hosting for your Ruby application. That means you can focus on your app development and forgot the pain of eg. the deployment or platform issues. Use Rails, Sinatra or any othe

László Bácsi, a Ruby hacker at Virgo Systems told me that he ran every time into a problem with his experimental Bible Reader app (Hungarian), namely that his CouchDB server doesn't start during the boot sequence.I think I solved this problem by adding a few parameters to the init script. Here is my

Sorry to say that but it is not the JavaScript execution and parsing that makes an ordinary website slow (slow? in what way?). Badly written scripts and advertising hell do that. Of course its nice to see that browsers evolve relatively rapidly but stop here for a moment.Most of the websites contain