breddy.net » dev http://www.breddy.net Personal and professional weblog of Chris Bredesen Sun, 02 May 2010 20:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 IETab Firefox Plugin http://www.breddy.net/2006/08/29/ietab-firefox-plugin/ http://www.breddy.net/2006/08/29/ietab-firefox-plugin/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:28:26 +0000 chris http://www.breddy.net/2006/08/29/ietab-firefox-plugin/ Not much else to say about this sweet plugin.  It lets you view any webpage using IE without leaving Firefox.  Kickass.

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Layout Gala

I had to give this treasure its own line because it embodies everything that is good and right in the field of web design. Pure, compatible, solid layouts that don’t rely on hacks. They’re all there, kids. Two-column, three-column, liquid, static — many even support any-order columns. Squirt.

]]> http://www.breddy.net/2006/07/10/css-layout-gala/feed/ 0 My First Rail http://www.breddy.net/2006/05/02/my-first-rail/ http://www.breddy.net/2006/05/02/my-first-rail/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 12:58:43 +0000 chris http://www.breddy.net/?p=27 I finally got a little time last night to check out Ruby on Rails. I have been hearing the hype now for over a year and I was pretty certain it would live up, and I’m here to tell you that it does. As a J2EE developer I respect OO design and and well thought-out conventions. Ruby embraces both and delivers a slick little setup that lets you get a data-connected webapp running in minutes.

The nice part is that with one install, you get the Ruby language along with Gems, the package manager. Gems works a lot like Yum does for linux, and with one gem command, you get the complete rails package, including a little webserver called WEBrick. RoR passes the 10-minute test with flying colors.

I followed along with one of the recommended tutorials before I hit the sack, and I found myself lying in bed running through use cases for my new score. Damn I’m a geek.

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