My co-author, Bruce Williams, released an update to his rails gem that handles an easy way to get the Paul Irish approach into a rails app.

Once you’ve installed it, all you have to do is

<pre> rake ie_conditional_tag:install </pre>

And put this in your application.html.erb file:

<%= ie_conditional_tag :html %>

You can get the gem/plugin source on github

Thanks to everyone who came out to the NovaRUG presentation of my HTML/CSS/Rails Views talk. Here’s my slides from the event:

Beautiful Markup (10.7MB PDF)

Thanks to Gregg Pollack a video of my RailsConf 2010 Talk, Curing DIV-itis with Semantic HTML, CSS and Presenters is now online at the EnvyLabs site. I’ll be expanding and giving this talk again on June 29th at NovaRUG.

Thanks to everyone who came to the talk at the conference and for those of you who watch it online!

The kind people at NovaRUG have invited me to deliver my RailsConf talk on June 29th at NearInfinity in Reston, Virginia. I’ll be updating and greatly expanding the coverage of the talk, since we have a lot more time. I’ll get a decent presenter example worked up for you all as well.

If there are any things you’d like to see in the talk that I didn’t cover before or tools you think I should cover, feel free to email me or leave a comment here.

My RailsConf talk Curing DIV-itis with Semantic HTML, CSS and Presenters went off great, with a standing room only attendance and some great questions. I apologize for not having a decent presenter example in the slide deck. I was concerned about hitting my time limit with the slide count (but ended up coming in around 30 minutes instead).

You can get the slides from either the link above or here (9.7MB PDF)

For those of you who don’t know, I started working at InfoEther last fall as their UI/UX/Design guy. One of the floating projects I had been tasked with was the redesign of the InfoEther company site. In light of getting me back into Ruby on Rails, they also decided that I should be the one to code it.

The site is done and up and will probably expand as we have time and new things happen. Now it’s off to work on wireframes for our new product.

You can see the site at infoether.com.