Webslingers' Journal

Web geekery with
Trey and Jason and Jason.

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Heroku | Why Instant Deployment Matters

At this rate, in less than 3 years we’ll be spending as much time deploying and provisioning as we spend developing.

“ I love URLs. I dream about them at night. I think about them before I think about anything else. ”

Adrian Holovaty (co-creator of Django and creator of EveryBlock) speaking at Webstock 09. (via Joshua Porter via matthewb)

“ We don’t want another new UI, XHTML and CSS export, a JavaScript pop-up menu generator or a new type engine. We just want a product that is 100% focused on allowing us to put down on the canvas what we are imagining in our heads and then slice up and export that for use in a hand-coded layout. That’s it. ”

Nathan Pitman’s open letter to developers encourages them to create a light-weight competitor to Adobe’s Fireworks, the latest version of which has major bugs that remain unpatched five months after its release. I’m a Fireworks devotee since version 1.0; its approach is streets ahead of Photoshop for me, but the latest version feels like messy beta software at best, with most of the effort having gone into features I won’t use. (via Jon Hicks) (via matthewb)

Recreating the button | stopdesign

Daily dose of PHP, Django, and Rails from The Webslingers

Dive into Python 3

A work in Progress. I love online books.

The Setup

The hardware and software used by some tech luminaries.

Interesting, but it’s always good to remember that tone is in your fingers.

43folders:

Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns

These concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design.

[via Chris Glass]

Rails versus Django

My advice is simply to ignore the irrelevant virulence directed toward a particular tool. Find coherent analysis of the features (documentation is a good start) and compare from there. Your framework will not make your project any better or worse; It is simply a delivery mechanism.

“ NOTE: Since Version 2.6, wp-config.php can be moved to the directory directly above the WordPress application directory. ”

Editing wp-config.php / WordPress Codex

Jason Tan discovers more goodies.