Make firefox much faster by editing the about:config options. Many options like nglayout, memory.capacity and trim_on_minimize seem to have disappeared...

Several methods in rails take a hash of options as the last argument. If you are passing the same options to several methods, you can remove this duplication by using with_options. Learn all about it in this episode.

Looking for an easy way to screen cast in the latest Ubuntu Linux? Here is the simplest way I’ve found

If you have a form with multiple buttons, you can detect which button was clicked by checking the passed parameters. Learn how in this episode.

I am still working on the overview video of Quicksilver, but in the meantime you can see how I use it to open folders and even move documents from folder to folder. It is much easier to see than to explain, so I would watch the video first. Now, why would I want to do it this way as opposed to draggi...

Ruby on Rails is not just for playing with your local database, it's for taking on the web. So in 5 minutes, we create a web-based search engine for Flickr using their public API with all the fades and glamour of Ajax

In 15 minutes, we go from scratch to complete weblog engine: with comments and an administrative interface. But since the actual application only took 58 lines to complete, we also have time left over to do unit testing, examine the logs, and play around with the domain model.

OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action.

This series aims to get you up and running with Python on Windows XP. Here I have distilled for you the knowledge that I wanted when I first started wi...

Want or need to deal with Perl scripts? Here's the introduction to the Perl programming language you've been looking for. This ShowMeDo series teaches ...