This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Make sure to read to the end, where I have a screencast overview of the final application. This week I decided to learn a bit more …
Tag: ruby
Learning pjax – Tutorial and Screencast
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I’m back to JavaScript, trying out the pjax library from Chris Wanstrath. pjax 1.0.0 was just released a few days ago and I’ve been …
Learning EventMachine
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I decided to try out EventMachine: a fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. Both by its …
Fog – Automating Cloud Servers
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Today I decided to try something new. Since I’ve been working with JavaScript libraries for the past few weeks, I wanted to go in a completely …
Weekly Tech Learning
Most web developers know that the tech industry moves at an accelerated pace, with hundreds (thousands?) of new technologies to try out that all promise to make our jobs [easier|faster|more efficient|stronger|more shiny]. The problem is time. How do you know which technology is worth your time to learn? Which ones will actually deliver and make …