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Hitgeist.com migrated from ERB to HAML and Compass+Blueprint

Hitgeist, a ranking service for finding recently popular sites in each country, received a minor upgrade – now it uses several new libraries to make development of new features easier, and code cleaner and nicer.
I built Hitgeist using Merb, a Ruby framework which brings fun back into web development. In fact, the fun is taken [...] 1 year ago Leave a comment »

Ruby 1.9 is released

Ruby 1.9 release brings around 2x performance improvements, as well as enhanced syntax. Still experimental! 3 years ago Leave a comment »

jQuery-style Chainability in PHP, Using SPL

Hacking jQuery-style chainable array operators into PHP, without modifying Zend core. 3 years ago 1 Comment »

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 has finally went mainstream. Old technology vs new technology: links to 4 frameworks, passing cookies vs full-fledged Ajax requests. 5 years ago 8 Comments »

HttpOnly in PHP (Anti-XSS)

Patching PHP to prevent stealing of cookies by malicious JavaScripts. 6 years ago 1 Comment »