Tired of changing your URLs back and forth from localhost to your domain? And what about uploading files to your server every time you make a change just because the API requires it?!

In this tutorial I will show you how you can use your real domain name so that you won’t have to do all that nonsence.

Styling checkboxes does not have to be a mess of code and you don’t have to use any plugins, JQuery alone can accomplish this effect if you use it wisely.

Increase your productivity and launch your app sooner with these five tips.

How do arrays work in Ruby? How are they different from other programming languages? You will learn this and more in this post.

CSS and Regular Expressions

by Miguel on January 14, 2010

CSS and regular expressions? yep, they make a powerful combination, take a look.

CSS Attribute and Value Selectors

by Miguel on January 14, 2010

There is more to it than classes and id’s, in this tutorial you’ll learn to select elements based on their attributes and/or values.

I have written a lot of CSS code where I wanted to invert a button, link, and many other element’s colors when the user hovered it, and all this time I’ve been using CSS’ pseudo class “:hover” when I could’ve done it a lot faster in JQuery. I did not think about this until today and in fact I wrote this script right before this post.

From what you’ve seen on the last two tutorials I bet you are thinking that Ruby is starting to look a lot like PHP, but the truth is Ruby is one of the most object oriented programming languages and you are about to see why and how.

How To Read an RSS File With PHP

by Miguel on December 24, 2009

RSS is still a great way to distribute content and some of the coolest mashups ups are RSS reading scripts. In this post I will show you how to read an RSS file so you can make your own.

Variables exist in every language, and they are easy to work with in Ruby. In this post you’ll learn about the types of variables and naming conventions used.