Web-Development

14 articles about web-development - lessons from building and scaling real software.

How Buoy Software is Redefining Rails Development with ViewComponents

Discover how Buoy Software improved their Rails app by transitioning from React and GraphQL to ViewComponents. Learn about performance gains and simplified development.

Acceptance Tests with Subdomains

How to use subdomains in your feature specs.

Take Control of Your HTTP Caching in Rails

Get more control over HTTP caching in Rails.

Introduction to Conditional HTTP Caching with Rails

Learn how to implement HTTP conditional caching in Rails using fresh_when.

Scaling JSON APIs in Rails using ActiveModel::Serializers, Key-Based Caching, and Rack::Cache

Learn proven strategies for scaling JSON APIs in Rails applications. Performance optimization techniques using ActiveModel::Serializers, key-based caching, and Rack::Cache with real-world examples.

CSS3 Transition Idiom

Exploring the use of CSS3 transitions, including browser feature detection, graceful degradation, and a simple idiom for applying transitions with …

Bringing back the image map

A look at using image maps in modern web development, including a case study on creating clickable triangular areas, handling multiple instances of …

CSS Gradient Definitions

An update to the CSS3 Gradient Generator that changes how the code sample is generated, moving from the ‘background’ property to …

Gradient Generator Updated

Updates to the CSS3 Gradient Generator, including color format selection and UI improvements.

Using Uploadify with Rails 3 - Part 2 - Controller Example

A follow-up post on using Uploadify with Rails 3, focusing on setting up the controller to work with file uploads. This part covers handling content …

Using Uploadify with Rails 3

I recently worked on a couple of Rails projects which both implemented the ability to upload photos to the server. One of these projects required the …

CSS3 Webkit Gradient Generator

Visit the CSS3 Webkit Gradient Generator

About iPhone Web Applications

Let me start by this post by specifying that it actually originated from another post that I’m working on right now, but while writing it I went off …

Welcome to glrzad.com

Welcome to glrzad.com, formerly rad-ev.com. It’s been quite a while since I’ve maintained a blog but I feel that now is a good time to get …