December 2005 Archives

The story that each framework is trying to tell is more important than the framework itself.

Ruby is more productive than Java, period. Even when Java libraries already exist to solve a problem, and you have to roll-your-own in Ruby, Ruby will come out ahead on sizable projects.

A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.

There are several basic types of uniform in the Imperial Forces and related organisations. Most of the uniforms in the films are easy to identify with particular roles within a branch of service. The uniforms detailed in these pages should not be regarded

Get to know Ruby before you hop on (or off) the Rails bandwagon

I’ve noticed in my short existence that I tend to do many things differently from most people. Some of those things probably work just as well, whereas others make me wonder “why doesn’t everyone do this?” Here are eight things that may make you f

Template:css collects many css formatted page templates, developed and distributed by different designers. Our aim is to provide an easy to use, comprehensive repository where people can find what they need. These tools help both experienced professionals

These patterns for creating personal Web sites have been distilled over the last few years from the most interesting personal Web sites I've found.

This site offers an RSS feed for every current member of Congress, so you can get notified each time your elected officials vote. Each member-specific feed includes the member's position in the latest 10 votes.

Sometimes movies don't finish the way we'd like

If you are web developer and are fed up with the spaghetti code you have come to the right place. Php On Trax(formerly Php On Rails) is a web-application and persistance framework that is based on Ruby on Rails and includes everything needed to create dat

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes

On the web, we often need to place a picture together with its description, caption etc. It's easy to place other elements around the image, but if the image is floating (left or right), it's a bit more complicated. In the pre-CSS era nested tables were u

Use this extension to go to the page on which you first clicked a link to the current page.

If you use Movable Type to manage content other than a traditional weblog, or if your weblog entries contain specific types of structured data, chances are you've wished for the ability to change the labels of the fields on the entry editing screen, or to

A portable app is a software program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any computer. When your USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged into a Windows computer, you have access to your

belief in God, and appeasement of religious extremists of all faiths by moderates, has been—and continues to be—the greatest threat to world peace and a sustained assault on reason.

A collection of resources for pen and paper RPGs

Mod_Auth is an IIS authentication filter that makes it possible for webmasters hosting their sites on IIS to password protect files and directories without the need to create windows accounts.

This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gmail account looks like a FTP hos

three little mods to make your moleskine, or any notebook for that matter, a little more functional.

The tab sidebar extension, if you haven't heard of it already, provides a sidebar in the browser that can act as a replacement to the main tab bar, with extras. The most obvious extra is that each tab includes a preview of the web page that is continually

Movable Type template engine offers a really simple platform to make a Google XML Sitemap. Basically, you need to create a new template and ask to Movable Type to rebuild it each time your blog is updated.

Thanks to an update from Apple, Front Row can now be easily installed on any Mac running 10.4.2 Tiger. While you previous had to rely on quirky hacks, Front Row can now be added to Tiger with full support, including keyboard shortcut and sound preferences

ASPA attempts to automate the process of translating asp pages into php. The supported languages are JScript and VbScript.