Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford argues that to take the web forward we need to look back — to the days of the great browser wars when inn...

Eric Miraglia and Matt Sweeney provide an architectural overview of the upcoming YUI 3.0 release, currently available as a public preview from http://d...

Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.

Need to add image attachments to a model? See how with paperclip in this episode.

Do you know how to make Capistrano tasks? See how to change default deployment behavior with custom tasks in this episode

Have you ever wanted to access helper methods outside of the view layer? In this episode I show you a couple ways to do just that.

This episode demonstrates a couple ways to redirect the user back to a previous page. Applying this to your site can help minimize the user's need to press the back button.

Need to ensure your background processes stay up and running and don't use too many resources? Check out the god gem as shown in this episode

Creating a custom daemon to handle background tasks is surprisingly simple. In this episode I will make a daemon to handle dynamically scheduled tasks.

Need to run a task frequently in the background? Starling and Workling is a killer combination for doing just that. See how in this episode.