To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...

I didn't know this, but because of a linking problem using custom taxonomies in Wordpress, I was forced to find out. If you create a new taxonomy, it will not work immediately on the front facing end. Your users will be greeted by a 404, page not found in...

If you use a consistent date format often in your Rails applciation, it is worth it to add the format to your application environment. You can do this by adding  it to the bottom of the config/environment.rb file. Time::DATE_FORMATS[:my_custom_format] ...

I usually change some of the default settings when I use the Paperclip plugin. For most of my projects I don't like having separate directories for each image that is uploaded. I prefer, in this instance, to put avatars of different sizes together under o...

The following tips and tricks can be put into your .vimrc file Remap jj to esc imap jj <Esc> Quickly leave edit mode and back to visual mode with jj. This is probably the fastest key combination possible and one of the most frequent key combinatio...