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Noah is a Computer Science student at the University of Kansas. His interests include web development in PHP/MySQL and Ruby on Rails. He obsessively follows Tech Startups and has been known to have his own entrepreneurial ambitions. His development environment of choice is Mac OSX using a combination of TextMate and Coda. Find out more about him on twitter (@noahhendrix) or facebook.com/noahhendrix.

Using HTACCESS for Pretty URLS

Using htaccess Files for Pretty URLS

on Jul 31st 2009 with 97 comments

Continuing our review of htaccess files, today we’ll examine how to use mod_rewrite to create pretty URLs.

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5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

on Jul 17th 2009 with 97 comments

Today we will go over some practical uses of htaccess files that you can use in your web applications.

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Authenticating Users With Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect

Authenticating Users With Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect

on Jul 8th 2009 with 75 comments

Most social networks have API tools that allow almost any website to authenticate users through their system. In today’s tutorial, we will learn how to use these tools. Using a simple comment model, users will learn how to leave a comment within their Facebook or Google profiles.

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Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API

Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API

on Jun 30th 2009 with 79 comments

In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a small widget that allows users to retrieve turn-by-turn directions to a specified location. We’ll be using the Google Maps API, via JavaScript, to provide this rather advanced functionality.

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Getting Started With Restful Authentication in Rails

Getting Started With Restful Authentication in Rails

on Jun 24th 2009 with 48 comments

In this article, we will use restful_authentication to add a user system to a simple Rails application. This is great for those first starting out and need step-by-step directions for using this amazing plugin. At the end of the article, visitors will be able to create an account, reset their password, login, logout, and validate email addresses.

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Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data

Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data

on Jun 10th 2009 with 132 comments

When a webpage is designed to display large tables of data, a great amount of consideration should be dedicated to allowing the user to sort through the data in a structured manner. In this article, I will go over four techniques: hover effects, zebra rows, filtering, and sorting.

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