My biggest issue in web development has always been design, and keeping my css files in a state that is understandable. I always end up with a million classes and ids that are hard to keep up. Dealing with Internet Explorer and its "unique" way to do certain things can make everyone wish for standards.

With all this headache I've found my HeadOn with BlueprintCSS. With one set of classes and some forethought I can get a nice looking page that looks the same in all my browsers. I'd go into detail, but the tutorial is really all the jump start you need.

BlueprintCSS does keep me in a grid layout, but this constraint is easy to live with when I know that every browser is going to look like I expect.

If you're wishing all your browsers looked the same after a hard days work, BlueprintCSS might be the solution for you.

Just before RailsConf 2008 I published ActsAsWizard. A rails plugin for creating RESTful multi-step wizards. I've been really happy with it, but hadn't pushed it much because of a dependency on acts_as_state_machine that I wanted to remove.

Well, I've done it. Just yesterday I removed all dependencies on acts_as_state_machine, and ActsAsWizard is finally a standalone plugin for rails. In removing acts_as_state_machine I have also removed a lot of dependencies on active record. The plugin modules are still automatically added to ActiveRecord::Base, but the functionality can be now be used with models that are not ActiveRecord. In fact I was contacted by one user that is using the wizard to populate session information.

If anyone tries out ActsAsWizard, please send me any comments or suggestions. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and patches are always welcome.