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Building a Site Map: iterating thru weblogs...

I have a single entry page. Within that page, I want to display the name of the category that the single entry post is associated with. I have this in the {exp:weblog:entries} tag: <h1>{categories}{category_name}{/categories}</h2> Works just peachy...unless the entry is auto-assigned to both parent and sub category. I only want to display the parent category name. How would I do this?

Creating an alphabetical navigation links based on the entries' titles

How to make a Coin Ring......

In Rolling with Ruby on Rails, I barely scratched the surface of what you can do with Ruby on Rails. I didn't talk about data validation or database transactions, and I did not mention callbacks, unit testing, or caching. There was hardly a mention of the many helpers that Rails includes to make your life easier. I can't really do justice to all of these topics in the space of this article, but I will go into details on some of them and present a brief overview of the rest, with links to more detailed information.

Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails. It won't teach you how to program in Ruby, but if you already know another object-oriented programming language, you should have no problem following along (and at the end you can find links on learning Ruby).

Howto make a (small) publication management app This howto will show you how to build a RoR app a bit advanced using belongs_to, has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many and authenticate authors. This howto uses things learned in the TodoList howto, in the api doc, and in the irc channel.

Writing, Briefly (Informal surveys of referring urls suggested demand for essays that were short and didn't mention Lisp.)

Well, it’s that time of the year again. The Nerd Vittles staff will be taking a breather for a bit to recharge our batteries. But, in the finest college tradition, we’re leaving you lots of homework. Here’s a listing of what we’ve built thus far in our Mac mini ISP-In-A-Box project. So, while we’re taking it easy, pick out a few projects you haven’t tried and knock yourself out.

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How to cut with a knife the right way..

Note that with the new generator framework introduced in rails 0.9 you can now use the Login Generator to get a working authentication framework for your application going in seconds!

A very clear and useful tutorial

Print designers have long relied on the ability to wrap text around anything — most commonly around a picture centered between two columns. This design option has not been available for web designers ... until now.

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Want a professional-looking glossary to add to your site? Probably of little relevance to webloggers but useful if you are using Expression Engine as the basis of your content management system, say to manage your company%u2019s public or private website

Surprisingly (to me at least) I get a lot of questions about how I insert Google Ads between my blog posts. I started doing it with Movable Type, so this method can probably be applied to just about any blog format allowing PHP and also can be applied to

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don't

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HowTo: Display the Number of Items Per Category