Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Aside from revision control and coding standards, college students aren’t exposed to another important part of software development, namely, the significance behind the choice of programming font.
Okay, so the choice of font isn’t really that important. But it’s still worth considering when you take into account that you’re going to get noticeable benefits for such a small investment.
In the field of management, there are two principles about incompetence that every manager must know.
Went to talk about Ruby and Ruby on Rails last Tuesday at the mini-DevCon at University of Perpetual Help System – DALTA. That’s the 4th public talk for this year (4.5th if you count the RailsFTW plugging last month).
No “transcript” here, though. Just imagine me giving the presentation in front of college students right after I make a class roster app in front of them in under 5 minutes, installation to demo. And yeah, Microsoft is the sponsor I was referring to in the talk.
I hate design work.
Wait, that’s how I started my last blog post. =/
Anyway, I just came to post that I spent the past 10 hours building the mini-site for RailsFTW. There you could download the latest version of RailsFTW (v0.3) which contains the recently released Rails 3.0.3.
That site also contains lists of recommended links and downloads for people who want to use Ruby and Rails in Windows. If you have some suggestions, feel free to send them over to me.
I don’t like design work.
Whether I like it or not, I still have to do it since it’s part being a web developer. Fortunately, I get to learn a couple of tricks once in a while to make life a bit more interesting.
One of those is how to turn a boring link into a “Web 2.0” button:
Half a decade ago, you’d have to use an image for this effect. Thanks to the CSS3 support in modern browsers, you can implement this using only CSS. Here’s how you do it.