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New in Rails 4.0: Rails Queue
At 3magine, we make use of both Ruby on Rails as well as PHP / MySQL for our social networking projects and web applications. Over the past few years, one of my largest annoyances as a Rails developer was sending … Continue reading
Steam iPhone app redesign
We’re all avid gamers here at 3magine. When we’re not building beautiful interfaces or coding complex systems, we’re playing games. Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 are staples here at the office, but the one game that I’ve forever fallen in … Continue reading
Camel Case Spaces
Web development is all about having fun, so let’s have some fun with camel case strings. function camelCaseSpaces($s){ return trim(preg_replace(“/[A-Z]/”,’ ${0}’,$s)); } Using this custom function you can now convert strings such as “iAmSuperCamelCaseString” to “i Am Super Camel Case … Continue reading
Mootools wrapInner
Today I worked on a project which was using jQuery and have encountered a nifty little function called wrapInnner. What it does is wraps the html contents of the element calling it with the element that is being passed to … Continue reading
Diamond Chooser – Custom Flash App with a little help from Maya
One of my recent challenges was to create an application for one of my clients that will enable the end user to be able to choose custom diamond band. Project requirements were pretty straight forward, such as choosing diamond shape, … Continue reading
XML Sitemap Generator
We’ve been receiving quite a bit of traffic to our old sitemap generator, which was created a few years back and is a bit outdated. These days, a little Google search will reveal hundreds of different sitemap generators, of which … Continue reading
Optimize your websites for speed and performance
Read our article on speeding up and optimizing your websites at Optimizing Websites for High Performance
Simple Javascript Confirm Message using Mootools
As most of you know there are many ways to implement “confirm” messages for your websites, and we have come up with yet another. Confirm messages are important because without them important data could be deleted or changed by accident. … Continue reading
How to disable the submit button upon form submission
From time to time some of you may notice that you receive multiple requests from your form submissions. Be it an email or database record, the problem is not with your programming but with the actual form. Just see it … Continue reading