This comprehensive guide will cover the fundamentals of visual design principles, demonstrated with plenty of illustrations to deepen your understanding....

If Design Patterns and AntiPatterns are rather new to you and you see yourself as being more on the beginner side of all things Ruby/Rails, then this one is...

In this article we’ll focus on the main View AntiPattern—PHPitis—and work through a couple of techniques to keep your views lean and mean. Having tons of...

This final article mentions a couple more smells you should look out for and sums up what this small series wanted to achieve. A final whiff, if you like…

This newbie-friendly article covers another round of smells and refactorings you should familiarize yourself with early in your career. We cover case...

In this, the last tutorial in our series, we’ll implement a navbar and a hero section for branding our podcast site. A simple, non-bulky pagination rounds up...

This is part 2 of a small series about code smells and possible refactorings. The target audience I had in mind are newbies who heard about this topic and...

In this article we’ll style the detail page for posts, embed the podcast widget and spend a little time getting our index list in shape. We’ll also take care...

In this tutorial we’ll continue building our podcast site. We’ll begin styling our index of posts, create a nice little footer and throw a bit of color into...

This is part one of a small series about code smells and how you can deal with them. Don’t worry if you’re new to this topic or just starting to code. I did...

In part three of this series we’re going to get our hands dirty and start building a site for a fictitious podcast site: “Matcha Nerdz”. We’ll be using...

A newbie-friendly intro to using the Page Object design pattern for your Capybara feature specs.