According to an article at PC Magazine, just yesterday Adobe announced the release date of Director 11. It seems like a lifetime since the last upgrade, which was back about 3 years ago. This new release seems to be targeting game developers more than ever.
Ageia PhysX for game physics and support for [...]

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Just two days ago I wrote about penetration testing using Firefox extensions. Well it turns out there’s another interesting security auditing tool that has just been released called Goolag Scanner, which essentially uses the Google search engine to attempt to “Google Hack” into your site. The results of the scan do not harm [...]

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Imagine for a second that you have a paint roller connected to your computer. Whatever image you select on your computer can literally be “rolled” out onto any surface you can imagine. The “PixelRoller” can do this and it makes it look easy. From the WebUrbanist site:
“This graffiti creation tool can be [...]

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How it works:
Safari and Firefox support CSS3’s ::selection pseudo-element. Using that and PHP, this toy hides an image in plain view.

Highlight the block of text below with your mouse to reveal a pixelated version of the Google Logo above.

CSS is used to help readers of web pages
to define colors, fonts, layout, and ot
her aspects [...]

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If you write web applications as a hobby or a business, you should ensure they are as secure as possible before launching them into public beta. All too often we hear that flaws in software code are exploited by hackers every day, most of the time these exploits are the result of sloppy code. [...]

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I’m sure everyone has heard that Google just released the Android SDK. The release of Android is great news for developers as it will allow them to put the latest and greatest mobile apps on your shiny new phone, and hopefully make money (or not depending on their motivation). The market for mobile [...]

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Very interesting new service named “Heroku” that’s still in beta is aiming to allow RoR developers to build and deploy rails applications “in the cloud” meaning developers no longer need to be concerned about setting up a working environment to develop applications, and Heroku plans to offer hosting options as well. I’ll be keeping [...]

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Rails Notes
Common Commands

Create a rails site by using the command: rails <site_name>
Start built-in webrick server by specifying: script/server
Stop the webrick server by pressing: ctr-c
The webrick server runs on port 3000 by default

Controller .rb

To generate a controller you use the generate script: script/generate controller <controller_name>
The generate script in the script folder is important because it allows [...]

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Rails and Databases

You’ll first need to create your database in whatever fashion you normally work with your RDBMS…
One rails convention that is commonly used is to separate the words in your database name with underscores.
The content of the table also plays an important part in what it is named. So if we are going [...]

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** In order to become proficient with the rails framework you really need to know quite a bit about ruby as a programming language.
Ruby References:

web page: http://corelib.rubyonrails.org //core library for the ruby programming language
book: “Programming Ruby” by Dave Thomas (aka: The Pick Axe Book)

Logs

if you programming and something has gone wrong often the error [...]

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