A guide on building high-scale JSON APIs in Rails using ActiveModel::Serializers, Key-Based Caching, and Rack::Cache. This post covers organizing APIs, leveraging HTTP caching, and ensuring high scalability.
A quick look at some recent issues I had when trying to move git remotes and then deploying with Capistrano and how I resolved the issue.
A look at how decorators and presenters can give flexibility to your application.
Get NewRelic RPM request instrumentation while using ActionController::Metal
Getting proper asset paths with the asset pipeline while working with a controller which doesn’t inherit from ActionController::Base can be a bit confusing. Learn how to get it working here.
Fix a centering issue of FB.Dialog’s within scrolled pages in Webkit.
Exploring the use of CSS3 transitions, including browser feature detection, graceful degradation, and a simple idiom for applying transitions with fallbacks to JavaScript animations. Discusses the benefits of CSS transitions and methods for detecting browser support.
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Use Sinatra to rapidly build a proxy for a service when you can’t make cross-origin AJAX requests in development.
A look at using image maps in modern web development, including a case study on creating clickable triangular areas, handling multiple instances of the same image map, and using JavaScript to determine which image was clicked.