In Ruby 1.9 there exists a new syntax for writing your lambda functions. How you would normally do these anonymous functions went something like this:

scope :enabled, lambda{ where(:enabled = true) }

Ruby 1.9 supports what is called 'stabby lambda'...

If you've not looked into using Backbone.js for any of your javascript projects, you really should. I've used it a fair amount, but am getting a good chance to really dig into it right now for a longer-term project and it's extremely satisfying.

In 1990, the resolution of 67% of monitors were 800x600 or below. That's really small. As of January 2011, it has been noted that 98.9% of monitors used have resolutions of 1024x768 (85% of them being higher than this!)

Now what is the point of me...

Ever since I started into web design I had always heard about grids and frameworks being used as bases. 960grid, Susy, Simpler grid.. the list goes on and I still don't understand the purpose. For template-like and basic sites they can make...

Recently at work we ran across a situation where we needed an efficient wayto find the Group-wise maximum of a certain column in an efficient manner. After fighting with and realizing that there is apparently no way to make MySQLcombine an ORDER...

In order to simplify and standardize the storage of mailing address information over our various Rails projects I decided to build a simple plugin that allows the attachment of a polymorphic address association to ActiveRecord models.

Currently,...

Well that doesn't sound like it makes any sense, does it? Hear me out first before totally writing it off. As a designer, it's extremely easy to find yourself in a rut and cranking out slight variations of the same sites over and over again. Here...

Lately I have been noticing many people who ask how they can better themselves and their code. I too ask myself this everyday, as we all should. So I have decided to touch on the subject to get you started and pointed in the right direction.

One...

Here at work we're often swapping code snippets, and the tool of choice is Gist. Previously in vim this involved :set nonumber, copying the code, opening up a browser, and pasting it into a gist. Now I just type :Gist

Gist.vim

Ben sent me this nice tidbit:

Basically, if you add:

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@

...to your ~/.screenrc, it will work as a normal term works w/r/t scrolling.

This greatly pleases me.