Creating a Rails app with all the dependencies has never been so easy - rg, a template-based rails app generator has been just added to the core.

When it comes to advanced design, finding the right stuff can be even harder. Advanced effects require a much more in-depth tutorial, and often writers aren’t willing to go into the detail needed.

The idea of network attached shared memory makes me want to re-think the whole scheme of data persistence. I'm tired of blindly using a RDBMS when another option could be much better.

We all know that source control, effective build scripts and continuous integration (CI) are all vital to a successful project at work. However, what about personal projects? I'm looking to find out what others are doing for personal development. What are your thoughts?

What I miss is the no more existing visual explorer. It disappeared in NB 6.1. It was possible with "Design Query" wizard to visualize table and connections between them. I never used it to actually design a query, but just to visualize the relations between tables.

Eric finds out that a VM and Mono comes in handy when creating C# .NET programs. In addition to Linux, Mono lets you develop and run .NET client and server applications on Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 provides a time slider for moving back into the past...

A thought-provoking approach to the issue of software quality. Can we really improve code quality by following all sorts of formulas? This post argues that the answer is no.

I know you already hate internet explorer, but there is never enough reason to hate it. Here are some more you can tell your internet explorer friends about. Ad Block Plus - I have no clue how I lived without this. It has changed the way I look at the internet. Its hard to browse without this. The extension will remove 90% of the ads on the net, and those of which that get through the filter can be blocked manually. Now that companies like comcast are adding bandwidth limit’s, this can help you take the useless load off.

SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it’s files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful.

Adobe Systems has provided more details on a research project that converts and compiles C and C++ to ActionScript and brings raw speed to the Flash virtual machine.

This is a major release with numerous new features.

Within Project Management we use a lot of metrics. The metrics will provide some relatively objective "description" on how the project is doing. They are the Project Managers' seismometer, they record if your project world is rocking, and how hard. Traditionally our metrics are focused on time and money. But how about that all important resource, the developer?

XBug currently runs on the Windows XP/Vista platform. But, it can also be used to debug webpages on Windows or Linux servers. Select your web page, then trace or step through your javascript code in real-time. Set breakpoints, and watchpoints in a separate code window, see a trace log while your code is executing, inspect variables, get an indexed list of the functions/methods, and more...

Download and Install Python, Your First Python Program, Variables,Loop and Conditional Statements, Functions Tuples, Lists, and Dictionaries in Python. Classes, Modules, File I/O, Exception Handling and so on.

Icon is a graphic interface element, a small picture, which represents an application, file, directory, operation system component, device etc. When the user clicks the icon, a standard action is usually performed (run application, open file etc.)

In this post let us discuss how we can configure a web application using JBoss-Seam framework in Tomcat. Maven is used for build management and Netbeans 6.1 or 6.5 is the IDE used [with Maven plugin installed]. The web application under consideration is a simple HelloWorld application.

Have you ever tried to merge two source trees, and wished that the merging algorithm could do a better job? In this short article I propose a simple approach to diffs and merges of source code that should be able to significantly improve upon today's merging algorithms.

During the weekend, I tried out NetBeans 6.5 and its new PHP related functionality. I had earlier seen some quick shots of how the support was, and it seemed like a good contender for big names like Zend Studio.

In most cases, you don't need a separate class to define a DataLoader and another separate class to define a DataNode. So in 6.5, the DataLoader is registered (by the New File Type wizard) in the layer, without being created as a Java class, while the DataNode isn't created by the New File Type wizard either.

The ical4j library is probably the reference java library for manipulating iCalendar data. It offers a full representation of the iCalendar (RFC 2445) data model (calendar components, properties and parameters), a parser, as well a set of helper classes to do date/time calculations.

Essential Flex resources - Flex components, Flex Skins & Themes, Online Flex Apps and Flex Tutorials.

Never commit files with warnings to SVN. Simple recommendation a lot of people don't follow. Well, you can either do it manually or you can try this simple plug-in that will check files you are about to commit for warnings

The 2nd part of the revision that started with part 6, this time covering the FileSystem API, the Nodes API, and the Explorer & Property Sheet API.

There are many useful Firefox add-ons which helps us in Web Development, I would like to thank each and every developer who has given us these add-ons to us. These add-ons or extensions are also known as in-browser tools. In my perspective I would like to say these helps me a lot and save my lots of time. These makes life’s very easier and cool as well, these may can be used as a reusable components as well. Below are some of the useful tools which has been released in the year of 2008 and which became powerful tools in the World of Web. I would like to list out all the respective tools which helps a developer in all the aspects of life while he is working at his desk. I would like to recommend every developer to use these tools and make your life easier. These tools were mostly related to web development area. Here we go, the lists which are depicted below are considered as a most useful firefox add-ons in the World of Web..... more at developersnippets.com