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I just saw this over on the Github’s and had to share it with the rest of the world!

When there’s something strange in your ruby app. Who you gonna call? Rails Hotline! Yes! A Ruby on Rails hotline! For free!?!

Time for another CSS quick tip! I see this question crop up a lot over at stackoverflow, and it’s to do with the natural padding associated with the tag. If you don’t use a good CSS reset you’ll notice that all your images have a four pixel padding at the bottom of them. This is how to remove it!

As you may have have discovered the eagerly awaited iteration of Django 1.3 has finally been released. The major focus of this release has been long standing feature requests, bug fixes and additions to current features. So without any further ado, lets run through them.

In this post, I’ll be listing all the best podcasts from far and wide on the topics of web and programming. Enjoy!

Well, I had to do some digging around deep in the WordPress internals for this one! If you want to set the image quality of the thumbnails from the “the_post_thumbnail” then this is the post for you!

Mozilla launch the “Mozilla Firefox 4 & The Web O(‘pen) Wonder”. An HTML 5 showcase of the capabilities of the up-coming and eagerly awaited Firefox 4 browser. To see the site in all it’s web glory you’ll need the Firefox 4 beta or Googles’ Chrome 9 (no mention of Safari or IE….). You’ll be wowed [...]

I’ll keep this one short and snappy! I just ran into an issue where the new HTML5 search field would take the browser default styles over what I had defined. With a little Googling around and some tweaks, I came up with the fix and thought I’d share!

As applications are getting more complex and manipulating data in more complex ways it’s becoming more important to optimise our database queries to be as efficient as possible. This article shows how more explicit queries can reduce execution time and take some of the strain off system resources.

Django is a fantastic Python framework with numerous methods to render forms. In this short article I will be showing you how to determine if a form field is “required” or not.