April 2008
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An Event Apart New Orleans
April 26, 2008
An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on. An Event Apart is the design conference for people who make websites. Join us on June 23–24, 2008 for An Event Apart Boston: two big days of web standards, best practices, and creative new directions, featuring twelve of the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today.
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ALA on Ruby on Rails
April 22, 2008
Issue No. 257 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is about the why and how of Ruby on Rails:
- The “why” of Ruby on Rails comes down to productivity, says Michael Slater. Web applications that share three characteristics—they’re database-driven, they’re new, and they have needs not well met by a typical CMS—can be built much more quickly with Ruby on Rails than with PHP, .NET, or Java, once the investment required to learn Rails has been made. Does your web app fall within the RoR “sweet spot?”
- The “how” of Ruby on Rails: Hivelogic’s Dan Benjamin prepares non-Rails developers, designers, and other creative professionals for their first foray into Rails. Learn what Ruby on Rails is (and isn’t), and where it fits into the spectrum of web development and design. See through the myths surrounding this powerful young platform, and learn how to approach working with it.
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The pig makes noise
April 14, 2008
SmartyPig has been all over the place lately. Since the site launched in early March, the Happy Cog-designed social banking website has been profiled in an article on Businessrecord.com, on American Public Media’s Future Tense (available as a podcast in RealMedia, MP3 or via iTunes), Dow Jones Market Watch, Webware, Download Squad, Mashable, and on Net Banker. When not making noise in the media, SmartyPig has been listening to its users. Righteous.
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ALA 256: swell maps
April 8, 2008
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Wilson Miner shares techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith shows how to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software to produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to your design goals. Read and enjoy. (P.S. We’ve also started an A List Apart Facebook group.)