There are only two tasks harder than writing Free Software graphics drivers. One is running a successful crocodile petting zoo, the other is wireless bungee jumping.

After many tutorials and hacks I got my Rails 3 working on Dreamhost too! The whole setup involve many components but it's a good investiment if you are planning to develop a new Rails app. The final aim is editing locally your app and sending the new features or fixes incrementally via ssh/Git.

WebKit browsers paved the way with CSS based gradients. Now Firefox 3.6 is out and is supporting them as well, which makes using them for progressive enhancement all the more appealing. More good news, CSS3 gradients fall into the camp where you can specify fallbacks (i.e. images) so that browsers that don’t support them just use the image instead. But wait… if you need to use an image anyway, why bother with declaring the gradient with CSS? That is kind of how I felt for a long time, but there is one important aspect that makes it worth it: browsers that support them don’t load the image fallback. One less HTTP Request = all the faster your site will load.

Out of the box, Linux runs just fine for many uses. But if you find yourself needing to ferret out performance problems or tune the kernel for better performance, Linux has more than enough tools to measure and tweak system performance. In this guide, we'll take a look at five of the best utilities to measure system performance and tweak the Linux kernel.

Once you have created the layout of the website, you will have to present it to your client. The approval process of the draft has many aspects which are similar to the sales and marketing techniques employed throughout the business world, so it is your job to convince the client to accept your project offer. By following this method you will be able to avoid making last-minute changes; additions which sometimes hinder the quality of your project and only add more time to it.

Here are some essential tips for designers and not only. Some of them are universal and can be ascribed with many other similarities in your own life even if it’’s not really with design. All tips are connected between so you should better read them all to get perfect understanding. Those tips are from my personal experience and knowledge which I found out helps me a lot daily, weekly, monthly and more! Almost every profession requires never ending learning and self educating, but especially it’s important in design field – new software, websites, tools come out every day, it’s your task to keep up, evolve your view and find the best ways to do specific tasks!

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more.. This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

How much… that book? It’s free. It is under OpenSource License. That is under GPL, while that other is under CC License. Great, it’s fantastic. Have you some links? Of course. Here is my best free-books list.

Running website optimization tests can be a very rewarding process. You are able to see firsthand the fruits of your labor. You may be surprised how the smallest of changes can have such large impacts in the overall outcome of a website. Many times, once you get started testing different elements of a website it is hard to stop. You will keep looking for things to test and ways to improve your website. This is great but it is also important to make sure that every test you conduct is worth your time and effort; not simply testing for the sake of testing.

In this last period on PV.M Garage we have described many trends of the modern Web Design and many techniques for creating stunning and impressive web sites. In one of our tutorials we learned how to realize a nice 3D ribbon and how to play with the drop shadow in Photoshop to simulate depth in a web design layout. This is a widespread trends in recent web design: creating a 3D perception in a website and simulating a “world” in three dimensions are two great ways for the designers to play with their skills. Thanks to useful graphic softwares (2D) we can easily create 3D elements, like ribbons and shadows, but we can also reproduce 3D scene using perspective, focus, color shading and opacity. There is also the possibility of using 3D softwares, like Blender, to create some 3D objects and images that we can use in our designs. There is an interesting article on CreativityDen about the fundamental ways of adding depth in web design works; it explains six basic techniques to simulate the 3D perception in our works and I suggest an attentive reading.