Reinventar

If you’re a designer build some icons and share them, make some textures, draw a template, invent a grid system or build a theme for your favorite CMS. If you’re a illustrator start a blog, share a drawing everyday, dribbble, give advice or create a web comic.

We’re participating once again on Codebits this year with the help of Bauke Schildt on the design. We’ve decided to try something diferent and create a proof-of-concept remake of the MBNet platform to show how it can be improved and adapted for todays time.

Paperclip is an awesome plugin to handle file uploads in Ruby on Rails. I’ve been using in a couple of projects lately and I thought I’d talk a bit about it. First of all, you need to install the plugin on your project by doing: script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git from your project main directory. After this, [...]

I just finished my presentation on Barcamp pt 08 which is held again in Coimbra. Although I was a bit nervous I think it went ok. The topic I choose was Performance on Ruby on Rails where I talked about the different issues surrounding getting the most performance out of your Ruby applications. I spoke [...]

Opera published the Web Standards Curriculum, a series of articles which were released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, the goal is to: teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.  I find the initiative very positive, there’s already 23 articles and 30 more are coming until the [...]