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CSS Cross-Country

Intermediate CSS

Explore the fundamentals of CSS, and review all the web-styling tools needed for front-end efficiency.

Frost-Proof Fundamentals

Adding style, selectors, the cascade, and floats
Clear Carving

Clearing floats, inheritance, and specificity
Box Bindings

The box model, positioning, and z-index
Grooming Your Code

DRY, display types, and centering
CSS Safety

Protecting your layout and specificity problems
Image Issues

Image use and image cropping
Sprightly Slaloms

Image replacement and sprites
Pseudo Sitzmark

Pseudo classes and pseudo elements

HTML/CSS: 5 Screencasts Watched

Responsive Web with Initializr

Intro to Haml

Build a Portfolio Web Page With HTML and CSS

AtoZ CSS: line-height

Build a Responsive Site With Bootstrap

Ruby: 4 Courses Completed

Rails Best Practices

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Controllers in Space

Fat model/skinny controller, named scopes, scopes with lambda, default scopes, model creation scopes, skipping a filter
Controller Command

Nested attributes, models without the database, using Presenters, rejecting SQL injection, Rails 3 responder syntax
Model Pitfalls

Basic & compound indices, protecting your attributes, using default database values, using callbacks properly, improving validation, database seeding
Model Bert

Optimizing n+1 queries, using counter_cache, batches of find_each, applying The Law of Demeter, using to_s and to_param in the model
Froggy Views

Refactoring views, using helpers, rendering content with partials, handling empty strings, using content_for, meta yield

Rails for Zombies 2

Getting Started With Ruby on Rails

Learn more Rails with this sequel to the infamous Rails for Zombies course. Increase your Ruby on Rails knowledge with even more zombie learning.

From the Ground Up

Installing Rails, creating a Rails app, database migrations, the command line, Ruby 1.9 hash syntax, Bundler, database configuration
Models Still Taste Like Chicken

Named scopes, callbacks, has_one, relationship options, using Includes, has_many :through
Rest In Pieces

Revisiting URL helpers, forms & input helpers, understanding REST, nested resources, view partials, other view helpers
Asset Packaging and Mailing

Sending attachments in mail, asset tags, using the Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript, creating and sending mail, SCSS, using the JavaScript manifest
Rendering Extremities

Custom RESTful routes, creating AJAX links, rendering custom JSON, AJAXified forms, controller rendering options, sending server JavaScript, using JSON data

Rails for Zombies Redux

Getting Started With Ruby on Rails

Learn Ruby on Rails, an open-source framework for the Ruby programming language. Rails for Zombies will teach you all the Rails basics with a zombie flair.

Deep in the Crud

How we work with a database in Rails by using Create, Read, Update, and Destroy (CRUD).
Models Taste Like Chicken

We'll learn about ActiveRecord models, validations, and relationships.
The Views Ain't Always Pretty

Get experience linking between views, using conditionals, and how to lookup documentation on common view helpers.
Controllers Must Be Eaten

Sitting between our Models and Views are the Controllers, which use instance variables to keep our code organized.
Routing Into Darkness

Learn how to direct requests to your app to the correct controller actions.

Rails for Zombies

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Core Ruby Classes

Asset Pipeline Patterns

Rails Anatomy

Rails 4 Queues

Ruby Idioms

Rails App From Scratch - Part 1

Rake - Part 1

Build a Ruby on Rails App

RubyTapas: Concat

Rails App Templates - Part 2

God Framework - Part 1

Chef - Part 4

Build a Rails Web API

RubyTapas: Catch and Throw

Rails-API - Part 2

Rails-API - Part 1

RubyTapas: Break With Value

Pearson: Rails Tutorial - Part 2

Pearson: Rails Tutorial - Part 1

Rails Boot Time

Rails App From Scratch - Devise

Behavior-driven Development with Cucumber

Sidekiq

Deployment: Capistrano - Part 2

Deployment: Capistrano - Part 1

Upgrade a Ruby on Rails App to Rails 4.2

Build a Reading List App With Ruby on Rails

Rails Auth: Authentication from Scratch

Rails Auth: Authlogic

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JavaScript: 2 Courses Completed

jQuery Air: First Flight

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Just Enough JavaScript

Creating variables, dialogs, object & string functions, number-related operations, working with arrays.
Take Off

Downloading jQuery, minified Javascript, loading jQuery, the DOM & jQuery selection, nested elements, pseudo-classes & direct descendants.
View from 30,000 Feet

Direct manipulation with CSS, manipulating multiple attributes, adding & removing classes, toggling classes, hiding & showing content.
Contents may shift

Retrieving & setting text content with text(), querying & setting DOM with html(), manipulating DOM with append() & prepend(), creating peers with :before & :after, adding & removing nodes.
Fasten your Seatbelts

Using document.ready, writing named functions, using click event listeners, keyboard events, animations, AJAX load()

jQuery Air: Captain's Log

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Events

HTML & Text value, HTML5 data attributes, click events, binding & unbinding events, using multiple click handlers, live vs. delegate
Ajax

$.ajax, error handling & callbacks, aborting AJAX & timeouts, receiving and parsing JSON, using JSONP, sending form data
Effects

Chaining effects & adjusting speed, animating with CSS, effect easing, using a queue, adding a delay, stopping an effect
Organization

Each & Map utility functions, creating your own utility functions, creating plugins, encapsulating your code, custom events, jQuery templates