Lightning, Dangerous Design, and CouchDB

Enough Design to be Dangerous Jonathan Julian Developers are stereotypically bad at the aesthetics of page design. But it doesn't have to be that way. I'll describe some simple guidelines and tips to help you turn that Times New Roman, left justified, black and grey page into something at least a little bit attractive. I'll go over some basics such as creating pleasing spacing with margin and padding, how the css box model works, and styling links. You'll learn how to easily make decent looking submit buttons, as well as how to tastefully use border radius and text shadows. We'll briefly learn about choosing typefaces, picking colors, and various ways to align elements peacefully without complex table markup. It doesn't matter if you code with html, erb, or haml, you can apply these markup and css techniques to any project.

CouchDB Chris Strom CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. We'll learn what all that means and how to put it to quick use.