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I came across this great video today that’s trying to help people wrap their minds around what ubiquitous computing means:

Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.

This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the [...]

I came across an incredibly poorly worded question on StackOverflow where the person asked How to Manipulate the DOM with Ruby on Rails. After some back and forth it turns out that he’s not asking how to use RJS or even how parse a page with Hpricot or Nokogiri, but instead was asking for a [...]

I’ve recently been digging back into doing mobile web development for The Social Collective and had a user send me a picture (taken with his webcam) of the browser on his Blackberry. It was basically a brightly colored smudge.
Luckily, the bug he was informing me of was sufficiently bone-headed on my part that I [...]

Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.
Some things really stuck out to me:
1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.
2. [...]

I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things.
One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in [...]