Take advantage of the named_scope method in your models and make find queries simple and beautiful! #app/models/comment.rb class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :post named_scope :pending, :conditions => ["pending = ?", true] named_scope :...

Prototype has a powerful API for accessing and manipulating the Document Object Model, A.K.A the DOM. The following code will let you interact with a simple web form. Suppose we have a form that contains hidden/or locked inputs and they need to be update...

I could not find a listing of all thematic theme functions for Wordpress online. So the following is just a recursive grep of the thematic directory. grep -rh "function thematic_" * Each function needs to prepended with "thematic_" when adding as a actio...

Here is my first data visualization. I used the Processing programming language and an SVG map of the United States. ...

Session based flash messages are fairly common in web apps. They work well when you have a temporary status to report back to the user, such as successfully saving a form. If you use Rails it comes with the Framework. If you are using Sinatra there ar...