Rails modal windows

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I dug around for a while yesterday looking into how to close prototype modal windows upon a successful ajax post while ensuring proper error handling. I discovered two excellent blog entries on the subject at javathehutt and richtextblog. Unfortunately, neither of them quite fit my case or fully addressed my issue. Of course, I could [...]

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MacBook Pro fan failure

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I came across a blog entry just slamming Apple hardware for being faulty, and immediately wrote it off as a pissed off, overly-opinionated rant that had no grounds in reality. Then about two hours later, my MacBook Pro began making a noise like a race car engine. When a laptop sounds like it’s about to [...]

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Color profiling in Photoshop

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If you’ve ever worked with images files in Photoshop or Illustrator, you’ve probably experienced some frustration in getting your colors to look right in a web browser, especially on Apple computers. If your images appear washed out or de-saturated, follow these simple steps to fix the problem. Special thanks to Andrew Bessler at Play for [...]

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Styling links with icons and CSS

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One of the most common web design techniques is to add small icons next to hypertext links to give the user some visual indication of what the link does. A common example is to put an envelope next to an email address. There are a few ways of doing this, and with a bit of [...]

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