Many of the leading luminaries of modern standards-based web design have been very excited about the upcoming release of IE7; the promise of not having to support yet another crappy browser has been very tempting.
Let’s recap what’s happened, though.
Since I’ve been playing around with RoR I’ve found the
script/server
trick for development to be fantastically useful. It’s quick to use, the server itself is fast, and it’s everything I could want. That is, until it’s time to go in to production mode. I’ve been running Apache, using OSX’s built-in build, but I’m [...]
I’ve been trying to learn Ruby on Rails. So far I’ve found it to be a very elegant solution to the problem of writing web apps. Until now I’ve used Tango or PHP, but I hope that I never have to use them again.
I recently had a rather interesting problem, however. My [...]
Dodecatheon poeticum (Primulaceae); Poet's shooting star Brent Miller is a web designer living in Portland, Oregon. He enjoys food, plants, and the color green. Read the "about" page for more about him. If you are interested in hiring him for web work, please contact him.
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