If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you’ll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Whether it’s mass resizing photos, embedding watermarks, adding filters, or perhaps something more or less complex, most of it can be automated.

Want to get started with Rails, but never used Ruby? This quick intro by Geoff Grosenbach will help you get going.

In this valuable primer to Ruby, Geoff covers everything you need to know to get rockin’ with Ruby.

Geoff discusses the following topics:

1. Objects in Ruby
2. Instance variables
3. Model View Controllers in Ruby
4. Constants
5. Symbols
6. Types of Strings
7. Class variables
8. Data structures: Hash tables
9. Multi-level hashes
10. Class inheritance
11. Meta programming
12. Getter and Setter methods

Pricing is always somewhat of a black art, and a subject about which there is precious little written with regard to web applications. It’s something I’ve always been fascinated by. The question of how to price our web application, Litmus, was subject to countless hours of discussion. Here I’ll discuss some common factors and hopefully help spark some ideas which can help you decide upon the price of your own application.

The customer is always right, right? Wrong. Clients can make insistent requests that would actually be detrimental to their business or intention. This usually happens if the client is inexperienced or misinformed in your field of work. Sometimes the cause is simply bad taste. Most of us have probably encountered more than our share of these clients. You can recognize this type of client easily, especially when they’re telling you the following things:

A Simunication is a rapidly designed web application prototype designed online using Simunicator to enable users to visualize and test drive the application before the formal development process begins. You can use our design editors to build the prototypes or upload your own HTML, CSS, Flash, script, etc.