Problematic Install of Ruby (for Sass) on Windows 7 (UPDATED)

I'm between projects at work at the moment so I'm taking the opportunity to have a look at a few things that I haven't had a chance to but have been meaning to for a while. CSS and HTML preprocessors are gradually being talked about more and more in the web dev community. I've had a look a couple of times at the site for Sass, but always been a bit intimidated. This week I watched a video by Chris Coyier talking about Sass (and he also touched on Jade a little), and I was smitten by it right away. Next morning at work I set to installing Sass...

Web Forms, and How Not to Do It

I'm absolutely passionate about web design. It is more than just a job to me. In fact, it became a job for me because I was so annoyed by the poor quality of interface design that I was confronted by day after day. I think of myself as an internet citizen. All the major events of my life have happened whilst I've been online, and have been broadcast online moments later. The first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night is go online. If there's some effect on a site that I think is cool I dig into the client side code until I understand what's going on.

html5

Recently the first book on html5 (that I can find anyway) was published. I'm about half way through it and really enjoying having everything that I need to know in one place finally. I've clearly learnt a lot as most of what has been covered so far I have at the very least heard of, if not played with. The stuff that I haven't yet seen is blowing my mind! I'm absolutely in love with this new version of our beloved language, and really glad to see the new tags such as article and section. I can't wait to use these in reality, but for the time being I'll just have to settle with test scripts.