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Web Dynamism w/Python+jQuery - Part 1
This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Check out part 2 and part 3. Having a static, standards compliant, flat-file website isn't a bad thing. But sometimes it's nice to inject a little bit of life into a...
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Web Dynamism w/Python+jQuery - Part 2
This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Check out part 1 and part 3. Here's a really easy one. The blurb and talk of requirements at the top of part 1 also apply to this article. The Example Let's say you...
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Web Dynamism w/Python+jQuery - Part 3
This is part 3 of a 3 part series. Check out part 1 and part 2. The blurb and talk of requirements at the top of part 1 also apply to this article. The Example Let's do something more interesting this...
View ArticleUsing Partials to Ease Website Deployment
My first few posts were about adding a bit of dynamic behavior to a web page. This is all very 'flashy' and 'cool', but often it's not the end result I need help making dynamic but the 'build...
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Going to RubyFringe!
RubyFringe is a hardcore indie conference held in Toronto that focuses on the non-Rails aspects of Ruby. And it's one I hadn't heard of until recently when I stumbled upon it completely by accident....
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Flot on GitHub
I've written about flot on my blog before, it's an awesome jQuery based plotting library that has just about every feature you could come up with off the top of your head. But I've been using flot a...
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Mongrel Cluster -> mod_rails
Passenger (aka. mod_rails) is the new Big Deal™ these days. Besides the performance benefits it's also simpler to setup and maintain (read: no maintenance). I decided to take the leap on a client's...
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Talking About DVCS
I've been using git a lot lately (flot, for example) and I've really come to appreciate it. Once you get past the chicken-in-the-headlights stage (in my case, just barely) it starts to become clear...
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Forcing Scrollbars
Back sometime around the year 2000 I used Microsoft Internet Explorer to browse the internet. Since then, of course, I've given up on IE (and Windows itself) for daily/regular use. But one thing that...
View ArticleDoing Cool Stuff w/ CouchDB
I've been looking for an excuse to use CouchDB for something for quite a while now. There's been lots of controversy around it and it's only getting louder the more popular/mainstream the project...
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Step Away from the Validator
I spend quite a bit of time keeping up with the happenings of the software industry. Part of that is reading blogs, reddit comment threads and the like. One of the topics that seems to come up...
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jQuery 1.3 First Impressions
jQuery 1.3 is out! I'm excited because I really enjoy writing code using it. In fact, with jQuery in the picture, I have a hard time deciding if my favorite language is Ruby or JavaScript. So I see...
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Ilac: Flex 3 Color Wheel
So you need a way to choose colors in your Flex application. Simple, use mx.controls.ColorPicker, right? Well... That's pretty weak unless you know every color that should be selectable. More often...
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Overlays on Components in Flex 3
Recently while working on a Flex app I needed to draw an image on top of a component which I didn't know the dimensions of until run-time. That is, I couldn't just make my overlay the exact size of...
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WebKit's Web Inspector + jQuery
While trying to switch full-time from Firefox to Chromium my biggest gripe was that it's Web Inspector makes doing heavy jQuery development very painful: Compare that to what Firebug gives you for the...
View Article@lmklater - Reminders via Twitter
Note: LMKLater has been taken offline. Siri killed it :)... I hope to clean up the source and get it on GitHub soon. My friend Brian IM's me with this idea — you write a tweet to a twitter account...
View ArticleShared Auth for Rack Apps
Being able to mount rack apps inside each other is awesome. For example, Resque provides Resque::Server for monitoring job processing and that means I wont have to write an interface for it myself....
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Our Culture of Exclusion
Or, why I'm not going to *conf Lately there have been a lot of great articles being written and discussion happening around sexism in the tech industry. And the flames are being fanned by several high...
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