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Today I was rambling in my web world on HTML 5 . Wondering about the great features offered. I think you also would like to start working on HTML 5 right now. So here are few things that will help to boost up your learning over this. http://diveintohtml5.org/ . [A detail discussion over HTML 5 with lots of techniques for diagnosis] http://diveintohtml5.org/introduction.html . [Have an basic idea] http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html . [Learn the techniques for detecting supports from your browser for HTML 5] http://diveintohtml5.org/canvas.html . [ Meet the canvas of HTML 5 ] http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html#methods . [The local storage provided by HTML 5]. See also  storage.html#halma ,  storage.html#future http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html . [Form elements are having more comprehensive options. See the iPhone web browser trick for a usability] Here is  all available tags  in a glance. Take preview on HTML 5 here. http://html5demos.com/ . [...

Have you ever used 'try' method in Ruby on Rails ( yes it is provided by rails not ruby ). I started loving this method so much. As the method name implies you will try to do something. If anyhow it fails it doesnt get fired on you by throwing any ugly exceptions. Look at the documentation . You may have already guessed the idea. But still lets work with a simple example. User.admins.first.try(:address).try(:reset) instead of User.admins.first.address.reset Here we are finding the first admin. Then accessing his/her address and then try to reset it. But what if that admin doesnt really have any address. I mean User.admins.first.address.first.address is nil. Then a NoMethodError for nil class would be waiting for you. But with the try you are safe. WHY? Actually try does nothing but invoking the Object#send method with the function name and the passed parameters. You can even pass a block through try. And apart from this Object#try method, you will have a N...

Did you ever try Highcharts for showing any kind chart data in your web application? Its great! Recently they released a newer version with lot more performance improvement and new features. Im talking about the version 2.0.0. Find it at http://www.highcharts.com/download . By the time you are reading this article if you find more upgraded version of highcharts, then of course it will be of more fun. Share it through comments :D Courtesy by Highcharts.com Just look at the Demo page of it. You will find lots of different kind of charts over there. Choose anyone according to your need. The first reason why I like Highchart is it totally based on javascript. Earlier I used openflash chart(OFC)  which is really slow by its process of data showing. As OFC is based on flash, you will need the flash embed code first, then this flash code will request for the data to your server and then it will show the chart. Maladroit huh !! But here with the help of Highcharts you will be...