Good reads of the day

The Font-as-a-Service

Unlike ever before, where previously we had only purchased a font as a closed, finite, singular product, we are now entering the age of the font-as-service: where the font becomes synonymous with web hosting, mobile data plans, and movie rentals. No longer fixed, fonts will be borrowed, subscribed to, removed, expanded upon, and provided on-the-fly.

Making a website iPhone friendly

With the increase in popularity of mobile devices (be they phones or netbooks) with full featured web browsers, sites are going to see more and more visitors coming from devices with unique physical constraints. The changes we’ve made are all simple to implement, but provide immediate benefit to these users. And we’re going to keep working on those incremental improvements.

Scaling rails: Page Responsiveness

Before we can talk about Server-side performance, we need to go over Client-side performance. We’re talking about how fast your website comes up in a user’s browser.

Javascript: More Flexible Constructors

As with Java, you can provide arguments to constructors to initialize property values for instances.

Links 4 the geek in you #1

Din lipsa de timp postez doar cateva linkuri ce merita vizitate:

Top 100 undiscovered websites.
Unele sunt deja familiare pentru majoritatea dintre voi. But still...

Consola ruby in browser.

Audiem is a non visual web experience.
Te ajuta sa vezi(lol) cum se simt vizitatorii cu handicap vizual cand acceseaza un site - in cazul in care acesta respecta standardele de accesibilitate. Un fel de simulare de screenreader.

Dreamweaver + Ruby

Lucrez la o aplicatie in Ruby si vreau sa folosesc mediul de lucru preferat, Dreamweaver. Problema.

Din fericire Rob Cameron doreste sa imparta cu noi o extensie foarte folositoare zic eu, rubyweaver. Dupa instalarea extensiei Dreamweaver recunoaste fisierele .rhtml iar codul apare highlighted. Siteul lui este offline dar am pus-o pentru download aici.

When creating a new file via File > New..., you will see that Ruby is available as a file type in the "Text" grouping and Rails under the "Basic Page" grouping. YML and SQL are also available in the "Other" group. To view and make changes to color coding, go to Edit > Preferences > Code Coloring and select Ruby or Rails from the list, then click the "Edit Scheme" button.
This new version has basic code hinting, thanks to BDC Software Inc. for the hinting file (available at: http://www.bdcsoftware.com/dev_rubyonrails_dreamweaver_codehints.php) These code hints depend on typing the full function name and an opening parenthesis before they'll kick in and show options. Ideally, as soon as you begin typing Dreamweaver would show a list of everything matching what you've typed so far. Still working on this.
To get the proper HTML coloring to show up in Rails files you need to go to Edit > Preferences > Code Format. Click on the Tag Library Editor link, then click on the HTML Folder at the top of the tree. Below turn on the checkbox for Rails.

Daca sunteti sceptici privind instalarea acestei extensii sau nu va place cum functioneaza mai exista si varianta aceasta.
Eu fiind mai comod si poate si din lipsa de timp am ales extensia.