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A tmux Crash Course

Learn everything you need to be productive in tmux.
Josh Clayton
January 18, 2011
- tmux
- Unix
- Vim
Do It Yourself @font-face Web Service

How to run your own web font service.
Dan Croak
January 14, 2011
- News
- Web
- Sinatra
- Design
Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

Why Bundler is slow.
Nick Quaranto
January 13, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
Make CSS3 Buttons Like a Boss

Step-by-step instructions for designing great buttons for the web with CSS.
Chad Mazzola
January 12, 2011
- Design
- CSS
Ongoing Refactoring and Client Work

How do you “sell” maintenance and refactoring to clients?
Matt Jankowski
January 10, 2011
- Playbook
PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.
Harold Giménez
January 7, 2011
Design Driven Development

The benefits of designing, then developing, rather than vice-versa.
Fred Yates
January 5, 2011
- Playbook
- Design
Use Deadweight in Your Integration Suite to Automatically Find Unused CSS Rules

How to find unused CSS rules in your Ruby test suite.
Jason Morrison
January 4, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- CSS
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Let it REST

You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...
Harold Giménez
December 22, 2010
- Web
- Good Code
- Rails
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