Rails

Kickstarting Your Rails Education

By Rey Bango It’s been a long time since I last coded on the server-side. In fact, if you’ve read some of my tutorials, you may have noticed that I use ColdFusion as my application server. While ColdFusion still works great, it definitely doesn’t have the panache and coolness of newer server-side technologies like Ruby […]

node.js

Using Node.js Event Module

By Andrew Burgess When I first heard about Node.js, I thought it was just a JavaScript implementation for the server. But it’s actually much more: it comes with a host of built-in functions that you don’t get in the browser. One of those bit of functionality is the Event Module, which has the EventEmitter class. […]

FB Web Tips

Recently in Web Development Nov 2013

By Rey Bango We used to have an awesome series called “Recently in Web Development” which listed out cool happenings around the web development industry. It touched on interesting frameworks, tools, articles and tutorials, helping to organize information in a quick and easy-to-read format. Based on feedback, we’ve decided to bring it back and hope […]

Jonathan Snook

Interview With Jonathan Snook

By Rey Bango I’ve met many web developers over the years and the common theme is that they tend to specialize in a specific aspect of web development. They’re either designers, JavaScript coders, server-side experts or perhaps a tiny bit of all of them. Rarely do I meet someone who is incredibly well-versed in the […]