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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

It turns out that Nate and Natty have only bought three programming books in the history of Everlater and one was a forgettable SEO book that doesn’t even merit being mentioned. The other two were HTML, XHTML, and CSS published by Visual Blueprint and RailsSpace by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka.

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How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I will show in this article how I did it in 30 minutes using Ruby on Rails (hopefully you will be able to do it in less than 10 minutes thanks to this article). I html encoded the code in step 6 (referred to as HTML_ENCODED_STEP_6 in step 7) 8. widget-ilove.heart{ color:red; font-size:42px}.widget-ilove

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Rhodes Rhodes is a Ruby-based framework designed to help developers create native apps for a wide range of devices and platforms. The reason we included Rhodes in this roundup — despite being a Ruby tool — is that it uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript in its views.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. Because each HTML document (formerly called “pages”) may contain many blocks, Web designers can use mobile devices’ limited screen sizes to their advantage.

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The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Yes a 1B+ company most certainly are doing something right; your market timing, brand positioning, product design, pricing, logistics, SEO, page navigation, product images, community engagement, etc. HTML & HTML5. Ruby on Rails. Smashing Book 1 in HTML. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques. Web Design. Typography.

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Sketching A New Mobile Web

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Edit Room is a web app that lets you assemble content, mark it up semantically, and then use fast, intuitive tools to design flexible HTML prototypes that can be presented and tested, and are even clean enough to be used as a kick-start for further development. HTML & HTML5. Ruby on Rails. Smashing Book 1 in HTML.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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