Chain Links #033
Posted: September 23rd, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, git, iPhone, ruby | 1 Comment »My 82-year old grandmother is on Facebook and regularly writes and responds to status messages and wall posts. My 2.5 year old daughter can navigate my iPhone to find games she wants to play or look at pictures. These are crazy times.
- prawn – 0.5.1
A new release of Prawn is out. Looks like with the merger of prawn-grid and its advanced CSS 3 support, you have tons of new options for doing grid-based or columnar layouts in your pdfs. - TweetStream: Ruby Access to the Twitter Streaming API
Ruby gem for receiving data from twitter via push instead of polling. - Arial versus Helvetica
A cool graphic showing the typographic differences on individual letters between Arial and Helvetica. - rack-chromeframe
Middleware that injects the necessary code snippets into outgoing html response to use Google Chrome Frame. - Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters
“CSS is the weakest link in the web developers toolbox. The problem goes deeper than CSS’s lack of variables. Unlike the “function” in programming, CSS has no fundamental building block.”
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re: prawn
Awesome timing! Just Monday at the Ruby meeting I was griping that Prawn couldn’t do columns like pdf/writer can. Thanks for posting this.