The Internet home of Mislav: writer, developer, photographer.
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Mark Pilgrim is gone and with him all of his sites and work. I more than enjoyed his book “Dive into HTML5”. It was a bible of transitioning and progressive enhancement back when nobody was certain about the direction of HTML working groups and browser support. It helped me learn abou...
“Combining characters” in Unicode are marks that modify other characters. For example, to add an acute to the e’s in “resume”, you could position the cursor after the “e” and type ⌥⇧ +e . For diacritics, you can get combining characters on the Mac keyboard by combining Shift with one ...
![Starting to understand the "cult of _why" even a song [Ruby was just the medium! Msg ws Beat!]](http://static.openruby.com/assets/pages/7d/4a/7d4abca578aa49ab407fd6a128d256a1_100.jpg)
Caring For You. And Your Wellness. I need you to be in a good mental state for the latter half of this book. Now is the time to begin conditioning you. Let’s start with some deep breathing. Give me a good deep breath and count to four with me. Here we go. 1. 2. 3. 4. Now exhale. You c...
Merge vs. rebase By Mislav Marohnić on 20 Feb 2013 The short: git pull --rebase instead of git pull git rebase -i @{u} before git push (on “feature”) git merge master (on “master”) git merge -no-ff feature However if “feature” contains only 1 commit, avoid the merge commit: (on “maste...
A scalding SEETHING LAVA infiltrates the cacauphonous ENGORGED MINESHAFTS deep within the ageless canopy of the DWEMTHY FOREST... chalky and nocturnal screams from the belly of the RAVENOUS WILD STORKUPINE... who eats wet goslings RIGHT AFTER they've had a few graham crackers and a mi...
Ruby developers are very sensitive to naming things. There are strong conventions regarding class, variable, method and file names, and these are not just organizational or cosmetic – some have their semantics even during code execution. For instance: in Rails a model named “Person” i...
What I’m Going to Do With the Massive Proceeds from this Book Anyone who’s written a book can tell you how easily an author is distracted by visions of grandeur. In my experience, I stop twice for each paragraph, and four times for each panel of a comic, just to envision the wealth an...
One thing about verbose mode that most of you might already be familiar with isn’t at all documented. I’m talking about the fact that verbose mode also turns on ruby interpreter warnings, both syntax ones and those that happen at runtime (e.g. method redefined).
