Ok…If you really love SQL, this is not the article for you. I’m going to share a little trick I’ve learned that will let you do really complex queries without writing a lick of SQL.

Now, mongo isn’t the solution to every problem. But for some things, like action tracking, it is close to perfect.

So you’re given an archive containing 10,000,000 .ttf files, most of which are named things like “bs019dfk.ttf”. How do you extract human readable names from these things?

So I have a client who needed a google voice widget embedded in their site.
If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a little widget that your site’s visitors can use to call you.

Yesterday I was working on a project, and found myself needing to create a bunch of color swatches. CSS wasn’t an option. No. They had to be little 16x16 images.

John Nunemaker posted a great article on using uploadify with rails.

Uploadify is a sweet jquery plugin that lets you do multiple file upload with progress indicators and everything, using the magic of flash.

I recently needed to create arched text in an application that uses Cairo. Unfortunately, Cairo doesn’t support warping text out of the box.