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Javascript Drop Shadows

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
I stumbled upon a n article entitled CSS Drop Shadows, which outlines an alternative way to create drop shadows for text in browsers not supporting the...

Who's going to RailsConf?

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
I'll be attending RailsConf this weekend - I'm flying in Thursday night. I'd be interested in meeting any readers of this blog and other Ruby bloggers ...

RailsConf and Rails 1.2

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
I meant to blog as the Rails Conference progressed, but the wireless network (and my own shame of my Wintel notebook) kept me from doing so. So here's my...

Swiss students finish first phase of RDT Refactoring work

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
I'm glad to announce that Mirko, Thomas and Lukas - the Swiss students - have completed the first phase of their work to bring refactoring to RDT. They...

JRuby guys hired by Sun, Netbeans Ruby IDE to come?

over 5 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Given the news about Sun hiring the JRuby developers, I thought I should chime my two cents in on the ongoing blog discussions. First, and foremost, congratulations...

Tim Bray on Ruby IDEs

over 5 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Tim Bray has been posting an ongoing series of articles documenting his experience in creating a Ruby based Atom protocol exerciser. His inisghts are a...

Mark Occurrences support in RDT

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Jason has just integrated a nice new feature for RDT in his type inferrence branch - Mark Occurrences support. The work that he and the Swiss students...

Haskell in Ruby?

over 5 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Ivan K sent along word that he's created a new project in rubyforge aiming to bring Haskell-like functional idioms to Ruby. For those interested in stuff...

More Real Estate Predictions

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Time for yet more of my completely biased and unresearched opinions on real estate... The general consensus is that the housing hot streak has ended. I...

Hardcore Caching secrets from Flickr

almost 6 years ago by Chris A Williams on Late to the Party.
Cal henderson of Flickr has posted an excellent article on serving javascript, css and images in the best way for a dynamic website. He mentions a number...