HTML: Remove blue border on links with images

Sick of that blue or purple box around your linked images? Here’s how to kill that stubborn thing. Simply place this bit of code in your CSS file or inside tags inside the head tags on your page. This applies the transparent “color” to all the states of a link, visited is usually purple, hover [...]

Rails: What is new and awesome in Rails 3.1 beta 1

The new hotness of 3.1 beta 1 is the concept of Asset Template Engines (ATE if you condense that) which basically allows you to not have to deal with piles-o-files with javascript, css, images, etc. You can still have tons of them, but now you don’t have to figure out how to include them all. [...]

CakePHP: Layouts

photo credit: Vagabond Shutterbug If there are things you want to appear on every page of your website, built in CakePHP, you will want to use a layout. I generally use one layout for header, footer, search, and other static elements. You can use multiples, but most of the time you won’t need more than [...]