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A Lightweight “CMS” Using Ruby and Google Drive

What do you do if your content authors don't know HTML? Have them enter content into a Google Drive spreadsheet, and use a Ruby gem to convert it. Here's how.

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ExtJS Unit Testing Using Jasmine

Tips on configuring the Jasmine unit testing (BDD) framwork for use with Ext JS 4 components and classes.

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Fewer Media Queries & User Agent Checks, Smarter CSS & JavaScript

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Auto Login During Development with dotjs

How to use the dotjs browser extension to write simple user scripts, specifically one to automatically log in to a site under development.

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Working with Compass Sprites — Lessons Learned

An introduction to Compass Sprites and its benefits, plus a setup overview and some tips and workarounds.

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A Few Quick Tips for qtip2

Tips for handling unusual cases in the qtip2 jQuery library—like using qtip2 to make a tooltip appear on a user-triggered event and then disappear.

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Rendering Templates in Ext JS – So Many Choices

Ext JS 4.0.x provides many ways of rendering content: autoEl, html, tpl/data, renderTpl/renderData. Here are my suggestions on which to use when.

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Guice AOP and the Java Persistence API

Guice's built-in support for Aspect-oriented programming can eliminate the need to repeatedly address the concerns of the database and Java Persistence API.

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Simple Natural Sorting in ExtJS

A simple method to sort numbers lacking leading zeroes, using a regex string replacement.

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GET and POST Parameter Parsing in Rails

Rails does a lot of magic to parse the data browsers submit into a meaningful, complex Ruby object. Here's how it does it.

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Getting Live Updates when Changing Stores in Ext JS

I recently had a live updating problem when moving an Ext JS model from one Ext.data.Store to another. Here's the solution I found.

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Testing HTML5 Offline Features Against a Remote Server Using Capybara/Selenium

Covers the process of testing a mobile app with offline caching against a remote Windows server application.

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