https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js That is the link to the jQuery source hosted by Google on their CDN. It's probably already cached on client machines so it should be as fast as is possible! You can read more/use other Java...

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

When mime types are registered they are placed in a hash constant EXTENSION_LOOKUP in the module Mime. For reference, the file with the relevant code is in rails/action_pack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb available on Github at https://github.com/r...

Great little gem that let's you quickly and easily send out mail from your ruby scripts. gem install pony require 'rubygems' require 'pony' Pony.mail :from=>"me@example.com", :to=>"you@example.com", :subject=>"hello", :body=>"world"

There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar. The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...