Are you annoyed that you need to wait almost 3 seconds for the stupid Apple Mail animation to complete when replying/forwarding a message? Thankfully you can turn off that behavior with a little command line: defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations...
A few days ago, I wrote Powify - a simple gem for managing 37 Signal's POW. POW is an easy-to-use local Rack server capable of running any rack application under a specified local domain (defaulting to .dev) [Disclaimer - POW is Mac-only]
Remember the good old days of PHP? Mastering a redirect was nearly impossible without complicated PHP code or writing a server instruction (.htaccess). Let's take a minute to examine the past and present, and then compare and contrast some of the advantages and...
A few weeks ago I made a post about creating custom domain short URL services with bit.ly. I'm going to walk you through a simple Rails application that allows you to create a custom domain URL shortener for free!
Have you ever wanted to see the resulting SQL of a query in Rails console? Well, unfortunately there's not really an 'easy' way to do this, other than hacking the console, so here we go. Fire up your Rails console. I'm using Rails 3, but this should would in <3...
I am a firm believer that UI should always supersede functionality, especially in the case of new webapps. People generally lash out when I say such things, but when you're starting a small company or launching a new product, a fully functional website does you...
