Our Cub Scout Day Camp is blessed with an abundance of rangemasters this year.
The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël - Hacks.mozilla.org starts a series looking at useful libraries for web developers, starting with this interface to SVG.
rubygems-bundler - This tool to eliminate 'bundle exec' is at 1.0 now.
jQuery.ish 0.2 - jQuery compatible syntax for core features in under 500 bytes.
Monitor HTTP Traffic on Mobile/Fennec - Firebug's Net panel for Android devices.
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Edmunds.com helps people find the car that meets their every need. We're currently hiring talented Java Developers in the Los Angeles area.
OPOWER motivates millions to become more energy efficient, and we're hiring !
deviantART is looking for Infrastructure and Database Operations Engineers!
Web Developer ( Ruby Developer) - San Diego, California
The Active Network is looking for a Rubyist who'll "have the keys to start/stop servers, create S3 buckets, set up notifications...anything you want to do with AWS as long as it's AWESOME." Nice! — click here to learn more.
Software Engineer - San Francisco, California
Manymoon is the #1 app in the Google Apps Marketplace and they're looking for a Software Engineer …
Web Developer - San Francisco, California
Do you have a passion for design as well as code? Hybrid Design wants you! They're working for clients like Apple, Nike, and TED and need a full-time Web developer with both Ruby and design chops — click here to learn more.
Ruby Developer - Evanston, Illinois
Celect builds member-management systems for organizations like churches and fraternities. They need a full-time Ruby developer for …
…gt; " Claudio" , "role" = & gt; " Web Developer" } . each_key do | key |
p key
end
# Will print
"name"
"role"
{"name" => " Claudio", "role" => " Web Developer"}.each value do |val|
p val
end
# Will print
" Claudio"
" Web Developer"
2. How to invert the values with the keys
An operation that can be in some cases very useful it's the …
I'm a big fan of Emacs. My fellow employees at Viget enjoy a number of different editors including Textmate and Vim . I strongly believe that everyone should use an editor they feel productive in and most importantly, an editor they enjoy. So, I have no interest in engaging in any kind of editor holy war here.
I'd like to show you how you can go from a default installation of Emacs HEAD (24) to a workable Rails development environment in only a few minutes. I will make the following assumptions:
As web developers something we often have to implement is handling file uploads. With Rails there are a number of plugins and gems for helping with this. The one I use most often is Paperclip . Out of the box, Paperclip does exactly what you want, and you don't have to think about any configuration. But, as your application matures, your needs often change and some custom configuration is often required. One thing you'll notice is that you can customize where the file is …
From A Web Developer Goes Native (with Android)
It was certainly an interesting week and I've been learning a lot. Android development is starting to come more naturally (looking things up on the API docs maybe every 5 minutes instead of every 30 seconds) and I'm actually starting to enjoy myself. It's really satisfying building something that I can immediately run on my Nexus One, and I definitely look forward to working more with the platform in the future. …
Apple has decreed that Flash must die and developers everywhere have shown up with shovels to dig its grave. Now, I'm no dear friend of Flash and I think the energy that is being poured into improving HTML5 on account of its future demise is wonderful for the web. But that doesn't make me feel any better about Apple's demonstration of might.
Today we cheer because Flash is every Real Web Developer™'s favorite piñata and what's more fun than seeing …
Karl Swedberg ( Web developer at Fusionary Media, member of the jQuery Team, author of jQuery 1.3 and 1.4 Reference Guides and maintainer of the jQuery API site)
One of the first things web developers learn to do with jQuery is to show and hide elements on a page and then add some flair by sliding those elements up and down or fading them in and out. Too often, though, we stop there, missing out on the incredible range and flexibility of jQuery's core effects. …