Revisiting Open Source Social Networking: Installing GNU Social

RailsBricks: Start Faster with Rails

Some time back, one of our writers submitted a Rails tutorial that mentioned RailsBricks as a starting point for the application. I had never heard of RailsBricks, so I checked it out and decided there could be other lost souls, such as myself.

RailsBricks is a gem that "enables you to create Rails apps much faster by automating mundane setup tasks and configuring useful common gems for you." It also has a Lego brick as its logo. I love Legos. If RailsBricks is Legos for Rails, I am in like Flynn.

In a nutshell, RailsBricks leverages some of the most-used Rails gems into a handy little generator.

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Amit and Swati Wedding

Coloful illustration filled One Pager promoting the wedding of Amit and Swati while telling the story of how they met. Another reference to advanced Parallax Scrolling that brings a website to life with animations as you scroll.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

Vittorio Branchizio

Responsive One Pager with a dark color scheme for Italian Fashion Designer, Vittorio Branchiato. Quite like the content load transition along with the fading header image as you make your first scroll.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

8 Lessons I've Learned About Using Google Analytics at Scale

Charted – Beautiful, Automatic Charts

Charted is a charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file.

Features

• Rendering well on all screen sizes, including monitors


• Re-fetching the data and updating the chart every 30 minutes


• Moving data series into separate charts


• Adjusting the chart type, labels/titles, and background

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How to Use WordPress Plugins to Streamline Your Business

Are you using WordPress for business? Do you need to streamline key online business processes? With WordPress plugins, you can automate online sales, customer service, project management, email marketing and more. In this article I’ll share nine online business activities you can streamline with WordPress plugins. #1: Implement the Sales Process It’s never been easier [...]

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