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NoiseGen, generate background noise with jQuery 21 Oct 2011 | 10:24 am
Adding a subtle background noise to Web pages is becoming a design trend: it produces a nice old-skool “analog” look that feels more like the “real world”. Neat examples are Forrst.com or Stripe.com, ...
Birth and death of an object in Ruby 12 Aug 2011 | 08:00 pm
Last week I played with a SOAP API with savon.rb to develop a newsletter system. This API require authentication with a two-way handshake. At first you send a login, a password and a key and it gave ...
An MVC implementation for Appcelerator – Part 4: Model and DB 5 Aug 2011 | 08:55 pm
In part 3 we setup a simple app based on Fabio Barbieri‘s evolution of Appcelerator on Rails. Now is time to start playing with some models and data. The application had two controllers: Products and...
An MVC implementation for Appcelerator – Part 3: A simple demo 29 Jul 2011 | 01:52 am
In part 2 we learned how to improve a standard distribution of Appcelerator on Rails. Now we will see it in action. We are going to create a small application with 2 empty tab, with a very simple log...
An MVC implementation for Appcelerator – Part 2: Improvements 20 Jul 2011 | 09:48 pm
Hi again, in this four parts tutorial I will present some ideas and projects to implement a MVC framework for Appcelerator Titanium, a multiplatform (iOS and Android) Javascript framework to build nat...
CSS3 Quick Tip: plastic buttons with gradients and box-shadows 5 Jul 2011 | 09:51 am
Hi all. Tonight I was browsing dribble.com when I stumbled on this impressive piece of design by David Lanham: I wanted to replicate this buttons with some CSS3 styling, using all the cool new thing...
An MVC implementation for Appcelerator – Part 1: Introduction 1 Jun 2011 | 03:09 am
Hi all, let me introduce this post by welcoming Andrea Mostosi as a new addition to our team here at PrimeGap. Andrea is one of the most brilliant coder and passionate geeks I’ve ever met. Starting ...
Problems with Rake 0.9.0 and Ruby on Rails? 26 May 2011 | 02:06 am
Problems Rails? If you tried to use rake in a Ruby on Rails project in the last few days, it could happen something like this: It depends on something that happened with the 0.9.0 version of Rake an...
jQCloud, a jQuery plugin to build neat word clouds (that actually look like clouds) 5 Mar 2011 | 04:05 am
Have you ever noticed that tag clouds and word clouds come in many shapes, but they hardly ever look like actual clouds? This fact was bugging me, so I decided to code jQCloud, an open-source jQuery p...
Ruby on Rails Quick Tip: passing variables to i18n localized strings 1 Mar 2011 | 03:24 am
UPDATE: this tutorial has been updated on May 6th, 2011. Thanks to equivalent. Hi all, today I want to share a little gotcha about Ruby on Rails. I usually embed variables inside my erb (or haml) c...
