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Archive for July, 2008

July 17th, 2008

Firefox3 Quick Review!

In Episode #6 of The Spin Show, we talked about firefox3 and some of the new enhansments and fixs and we also discussed some add-ons which are big help for web developers
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Add-ons discussed in the podcast:

Firebug 1.2.0b6
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. [...]

July 14th, 2008

Trying technology

One of the things that make our team enjoy working with the Internet is that every other month, a new technology, library or technique shows up under our radar; so, we get to try things really early, when they are far from being mainstream.

Of course, we don’t try new technologies just for the sake of [...]

July 13th, 2008

Filtering and sorting with named_scope

A common feature in most web apps is filtering and sorting items, doing this in Rails 2.1 got really simple and clean with named_scope. Here is a quick tutorial on how we do it in our apps:
We start by defining the filters and sorting options as scopes:

# Types
named_scope :rentals,
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July 3rd, 2008

Slicejar Heading Banners

“Slicejar”:http://www.slicejar.com is an exciting/fun project that we started working on recently (early-beta now). And today, I want to share a quick and easy way to create a Slicejar-like heading banner with basic knowledge in Photoshop.
First, set the foreground color to #2D2823, then insert the “Banner 1” shape at any size you like but make sure [...]

July 3rd, 2008

The Spin Show - Episode 5

In Episode #5 of The Spin Show, we interview Karim Arafat, co-founder of Tootcorp and CEO of watwet, a social networking and mini-blogging service based in Jordan.
Watwet is growing and looking to expand in the region.
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