The world wide web isn’t what it used to be. Back in the day you only had to develop for one screen. One screen that was a nice square 15″ CRT monitor, whose resolution you could safely predict would be 1024×768 or less. Back in those days you had the glory of CSS1 and table… Read more »
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My Experience with Ruby On Rails as a PHP Developer
Note: This post is an extension of my previous post about developing with PHP frameworks. Recently I created a new web app using Ruby on Rails. By trade I’m a PHP and JavaScript developer so this foray into RoR broke new ground for me. I went with Rails over a PHP framework mostly because I… Read more »
Blogging Is Harder Than You Think
When I began to blog I wasn’t aware of the challenges I would be facing. ’So many people blog all the time, it can’t be that hard!’. I could not have been more wrong. How do you start blogging? The first (non) challenge of blogging is what software or service to use. The most popular… Read more »
The Best Mac Git Gui
Git is one of the most powerful and effective revision control systems available. It’s lightweight and highly configurable, complimenting almost anyone’s programming workflow. Predominately you interact with git from the command line, inputting commands such as `git status` or `git commit` to manipulate your repository. When you first learn git the CLI can be daunting… Read more »
Prune Remote Git Branches
Git is a wonderful version control system. It’s light, nimble, and fast. It makes managing code amongst many developers a dream. Unfortunately it has a fair share of quirks. One of the quirkiest quirks that I’ve run into a couple times now is an issue with remote git branches. When a remote git branch is… Read more »