Virtually every application needs a solid way to organize and store application level configuration settings. There are a slew of gems out that purport to do the work for you, but here is a solution that you can implement in short order, with no external dependencies.

Testing that your website functions properly across different browsers/platforms is a necessary but often tedious part of the development process. Here are a couple of tools for you to consider, depending on your testing needs.

In this article, we'll show you how to create a basic Node.js application using the Express framework and deploy it to both Heroku and Nodejitsu.

Duplicate content is identical content that appears online in multiple locations. It is important to be aware of because search engines have difficulty identifying canonical content locations and thus may penalize site owners by way of lowered index rankings or omissions. Here we'll use Ruby and a bit of Rack middleware to avoid some common duplicate content issues...

I recently switched shells from bash to zsh after noticing many of my coworkers using zsh and finding myself with a bit of 'shell envy'. The completions and customizations that can be made in zsh make it quite appealing. With that, I checked out and tried a couple of different frameworks for zsh customization...