What is Storytlr? Lifestreaming is the aggregation of all of your actions throughout the web in one place to present a complete picture of your digital life. There are several lifestreaming applications out there, and Storytlr was one of the first. Storytlr was originally a closed source, hosted web application started by Laurent Eschenauer and Alard Weisscher [...]

The kind folks at New Rider have offered FYC readers a chance at a free pass to their upcoming Voices that Matter: Web Design 2010 conference! What’s this conference all about? In their own words: New Riders’ Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco [...]

Twitter recently announced and released a JavaScript API called @Anywhere which makes it super-simple to integrate Twitter-related content on any website. This means developers no longer have to roll their own integration or use 3rd party libraries. @Anywhere, despite its unfortunate naming, appears to be a big win for all. Here is a brief overview [...]

JavaScript is a powerful language, but it lacks some of the handy utilities that developers of other languages like Ruby & Python have come to know and love. Underscore.js is your utility belt. In the author’s own words: Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you [...]

The jQuery UI team made a big announcement today regarding the immediate release of jQuery UI 1.8 final, the latest release of the official user interface library for jQuery. From the release post: Now it’s even easier to build your own widgets or extend ours, whether you use the jQuery UI Widget Factory, the jQuery UI CSS [...]

Rails 2.3+ and Rails 3 rely on Rack, a minimal (and awesome) interface between Ruby and webservers. This has many advantages, one of which is the ability to easily swap Rack applications (middlewares) in & out of your Rails app. Modularity FTW! One fun (and useful) example of a Rack middleware is a Firebug logger written [...]

For simple WordPress theme development, what is the first thing most PHP developers do to troubleshoot problems? print_r( $post ); die(); One the statements are in place, the programmer refreshes the page and looks at the source to view a nicely indented array or object. Next they comment out the print_r and die statements, change some lines, and [...]

As much as developers like ourselves love to learn, there are only so many conferences we can attend in a given year. Add to that fact that many development conferences are quite expensive and that raises the barriers even more. If you are a new developer, have just branched out into freelancing or are starting [...]

jQuery plugins come in all shapes and sizes. They perform very simple or very complex tasks depending on their intended use. When it comes time for you to design your own plugin, its really important to understand what patterns other developers use and what will best suits your needs. As a side note, I have built [...]

Late in 2009, Cody Lindley published a PDF book on jQuery titled jQuery Enlightenment. Today we are presenting our view of the book as well as offering a free copy to one lucky reader. About The Author Cody Lindley is a core team member of the jQuery project, and the original developer of the well known Thickbox [...]

One of our regular writers Wess Cope lives by the principle that you should seek to push technology past its intended uses and beyond even its own limitations. From time to time we will be featuring unconventional uses of technology. Today, we look at unconventional CSS3: The Problem As a developer, you are rapidly building your newest [...]

Every year we see amazing technical advances and 2009 was no exception. Both Apple and Microsoft released new versions of their operating systems; pretty much every major browser, and some smaller ones, saw significant releases and improvements. New tools were released to assist developers as well as new books to increase the effectiveness of both [...]

I am excited to present this developer interview with programmer Wess Cope. Wess is a regular contributor here on Fuel Your Coding and so this interview was a great opportunity for us to learn more about what makes Wess tick. Did you go to school for programming? How did you get started in this field? I am [...]

I am excited to present this developer interview with programmer Wess Cope. Wess is a regular contributor here on Fuel Your Coding and so this interview was a great opportunity for us to learn more about what makes Wess tick. Did you go to school for programming? How did you get started in this field? I am [...]

When you do a lot of development with backend technologies, it can be frustrating to then move to the front end and feel like you are using a completely different syntax. One thing I really miss is the helper methods, especially when using Ruby on Rails on the server. Little helpers like titleize() or downcase() [...]