Matt Aimonetti has a client that believes Rubyists don't scale. Sorry Matt, your client is wrong. It's as easy to hire great Ruby programmers as it is to hire great Java programmers or great programmers for any given popular language. The problem is, it's not easy to hire great programmers in any language. Worse, companies still think they need to hire one or two great programmers and a supporting cast of average programmers. As Martin Fowler pointed out, cheaper developers are actually more expensive than experts. To make things worse, if you end up with a NNPP or two you'll be headed in the wrong direction.

In this post, you will find a little reminder of Mootools base functions (Basic Learning) + 5 very cool tips and examples to do more things with less code.

All patterns are listed here. It's quite a bunch of them, but I have tried to group them meaningfully.

A quick collection of several noteworthy launches within the past few weeks.

When developing a project it's important to have a good form input structure throughout, most commonly used forms will tend to be Login, Register and user Profiles. If you have taken the time to develop a custom template for your project more often than not the default appearance of forms you have created are not ideally suited to you designs overall look and feel. We have gathered together a great list of tutorials that should have your new forms looking great or breath life into your existing form design.

It's easy to get colours right, but it's even easier to get them wrong. In web design it is crucial that you make well-informed colour choices. It might sound far-fetched but your choices of colour in web design can make or break your online business. Websites that are aesthetically pleasing and well designed are the ones that get more hits, and a more likely to get returning business.

Last week we presented the first results of our study of top blogs. As promised, this week we publish the second part of the survey, including further findings and problem solutions we have found out during the study. In the first part we discussed layout design and typographic settings. What remains to be covered are the navigation design, information architecture, advertisements and functionality (RSS-feeds, tag clouds, pagination etc.).......

Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.

Nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

Opacity is a desirable thing in this day and age; especially with the design trends that typified the web2.0 movement. There are a few ways of doing this that I'll discuss but this super-short tutorial is about CSS opacity.

I’ve been collecting scaling stories for some time now and last week I came across the following run down on Fliker scaling: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day by Dathan Vance Pattishall, the Flickr database guy.

This tutorial illustrates a simple way to design pure CSS form without using html tables

I gathered what I consider 100 of the best photo effects Photoshop tutorials available on the web

25+ alphabetical list of websites where you can get free quality vectors graphics without registration for your collection!

"Ever wondered how all those slick "magazine" themes for WordPress and other platforms were created? Many, if not all, were designed using a CSS Grid Framework - at least in essence if not in actual fact. That is, you can use an existing CSS framework or build your own from scratch. While it's possible to design complex web page layouts without a framework, it's arguably an act in masochism. In this article you'll get an overview of the current batch of Frameworks and which you should choose to use."

f you’re not interested in your website’s visitors, here are 7 things you can do to make this clear to them.

There was a recent article on Slashdot with the salacious title Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More, implying that the Lord of Algorithms thought unit tests were a waste of time. If you read the actual interview, you will see that Knuth is simply saying that in his own experience writing code, he has never found much use for unit tests.

A collection of showcases for some of the popular Web Development Frameworks.

At first glance, Google’s App Engine looks like a great way to build the next big web application; you get access to a massively scalable infrastructure, you get access to a huge existing authentication system, you get baked-in stats, you get all sorts of cool goodies.

TechCrunch is announcing Google’s new “App Engine” service being launched this evening. The basic service is a full app stack hosted and managed by Google, providing a web framework (maybe I’m misreading this?) and the Google ‘big table’ database service. The web stack is Python, but there’s no word I’m seeing on whether it’s plain Python or if it’s based on an existing Python framework (like Zope or Django or something).

Which CSS galleries are worth taking your time to submit your work? This post shows vital stats for 80 of the top galleries, including Alexa rank, number of subscribers, amount of activity in March, and more. Using this information you can submit your work to only the most beneficial galleries.

WordPress 2.5 is out with tons of sexy new features and a super slick layout. I was hesitant even though it looked really hot. Until I found probably the best WordPress Plugin ever created called “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”.

A collection of tools, article, tutorials, galleries, and more for designers that use grids or want to learn more about designing with grids.

These are the 5 useful url rewriting examples using .htaccess...

A while ago, Christian Sepulveda wrote an interesting post Why Rails will Reign Supreme. This is the latest variation on a theme that’s beginning to resound in the Rails community, and I can’t help but to disagree.