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A Review of jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to
Last updated: 5/14/13 One of the fun things about being a web developer is sometimes you get technical books to read for free. Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to by Charlie Griefer to review for this blog. It’s part of their Instant series of books – short and [...]
The Outsourcing Experiment: Hiring Other People
When I got into freelancing, it was because I wanted a certain level of independence and flexibility. I enjoy the challenge of coding, but I didn’t want to manage people or have employees. I had seen a lot of the headaches that can come from managing others from working for a large organization. Doing it [...]
10+1 Free Tools to Help Speed Up Your Rails Application
What is performance optimization? The closest official definition I found is a Wikipedia entry for “performance tuning”, defined as “the improvement of system performance.” For a web application, this essentially means “make it run faster” across different areas of your web application (database queries, http response times, etc.) 10 Free Tools and Techniques That Will [...]
