She probably registered to a forum or the other portal and she used her email with the same gmail password. And then the data (list of emails and passwords) form a forum/portal leaked. Ask her if she use the one password to all accounts.

and that's why she has 2 factor auth.

I think the most important part of modern web developement are frameworks:

JS frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS

CSS frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation

and tons ready-to-use solutions on Github.

thanks for sharing

My productivity tips:

- to do lists and pomodoro technique

- automate everything what can be automated

- delegate everything what can be delegated

btw of "rise in popularity of Ruby on Rails":

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Ruby%20on%20Rails%2C%...

Laravel

IE<9

Twitter Bootstrap is the best CSS framework but you mean rather a website with a default theme. There are a lot of themes and templates of Twitter Bootstrap that don't look like Bootstrap, for example on wrapbootstrap.com.

Any code examples? What did he build?