In many cases it is as easy as relying on a gem instead of doing it yourself. Where the gem contains a c extension. Say resizing images with chunkypng vs mini_magick
It seems to me that being "way faster than rsync" is not worth $49. Also there is no comparison / explanation on the site of how it is faster than rsync.
yes this is exactly right, its POST for compatibility reasons, rails puts a special parameter in the form submit to map to PUT (for resourceful routes)
html5boilerplate used to be my goto html / css structure for starting a project. I recently build one using bootstrap 2.0... and it was significantly less hassle, but still looks good and works on desktop and mobile