Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson as a kind of byproduct of Basecamp’s development at 37signals in 2004. Basecamp was built in Ruby because Hansson found PHP and Java not powerful or flexible enough. It was quite an obscure language back then, without the large eco-system available today. To make development easier, Hansson rolled his own Web development framework, based on simple ideas that had proven successful elsewhere. Rails is founded on pragmatism and established paradigms instead of exotic new ideas. And that’s what made it so successful.

a hands-on tutorial

Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.

Web Development and Design Information

На нашем сайте "Хаос. Нелинейная динамика" http://chaos.in.ua/ появилась метапоисковая система PDF Science Search (PDFSS). Эта система обеспечивает поиск PDF-файлов, размещенных в веб в открытом доступе. Процедура поиска базируется на использовании таких ведущих поисковых систем, как Google, Яндекс, Рамблер.

С помощью этого простого сервиса ты можешь быстро создать себе резиновый xhtml-макет c базовой разметкой, основу для сайта. Пока только двухколоночные, но скоро к нам завезут поддержку трёхколоночных.

Distribute widths with CSS

PNG-24 is what most web developer’s use for transparency on the web. It tends to have large file sizes but provides excellent transparency. Using PNG-8 or GIF for transparency doesn’t work near as well… at least normally! There is actually a way to use PNG-8 transparency that is better than PNG-24.

Yet another pastebin

Cheaptrip: демпинг на туристической ниве.

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This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable.

JS Bin is a webapp specifically designed to help JavaScript and CSS folk test snippets of code, within some context, and debug the code collaboratively. JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code - new tabs doesn't). Once you're happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review or help. They can then make further changes saving anew if required.

Javascript is often used on the browser client side to perform simple tasks that would otherwise require a full postback to the server. Many of those simple tasks involve processing text or characters entered into a form element on a web page, and it is often necessary to know the javascript keycode associated with a character. Here is a reference.