Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Category: Accessibility, Editorial
, Mobile
, Rails
Phil Greenspun bemoans the difficulty of running modern web apps from his sidekick. My Motorola/Windows XP phone began to die after two years. Wanting something that would let me keep in touch with friends over AOL Instant Messenger, I got a T-Mobile Sidekick. I was reluctant to get a non-flip phone, but so far I Read the rest…
Category: Library, Rails
, Ruby
, Unobtrusive JS
Dan Webb, one half of the team behind the Unobtrusive Javascript Plugin for Rails, posted an article on how he used UJS to develop a slick help sidebar for Event Wax. He first gets the help sidebar working using a traditional request for the whole page, and then he adds the ajax functionality via apply_behavior Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
DormItem is a Rails application that uses a single page Ajax model for the interface. Filtering is done via search and tags, all filtering the main content area without a full page request. You will notice that the URLs end in: #/someaction. This allows for bookmarking and reloads even though the item was got too Read the rest…
Monday, November 6th, 2006
If you haven't checked out RJS templates, Leon of fallenRogue has written up a walk through article of RJS templates in Rails or Ajax with ease a 101 .rjs walkthrough. The article walks through a new Rails project from scratch and simply adds some ajax goodness to the comment system: PLAIN TEXT RUBY: page["comment_count"].replace_html pluralize(@entry.comments.count, Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Category: Rails, The Ajax Experience
, Unobtrusive JS
notes from Dan Webb's presentation at Ajax Experience
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
A new Ruby on Rails file sharing service has been created: sthenic. The application is simple and fits a lot into each piece. E.g. when you put in your password, it tells you how weak it is, and then goes away when done. The application will be open sourced soon at: http://projects.info-pull.com/projects/openvault
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Category: Library, Prototype
, Rails
We've covered the very cool UJS (Unobtrusive Javascript) plugin for Rails previously. Now the creators have extracted the javascript pieces to allow easy unobtrusive scripting with prototype and released it as Low Pro (download here). Low Pro features code from folks like Dean Edwards and Justin Palmer, among others. Its compatible with Prototype 1.5 and Read the rest...
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Our good friends at Relevance saw the output of Rails scaffolding, and instead of poo-pooing it, realised that they could make something great out of it. That is where Streamlined comes in. It's generates let you build a right Ajax view of your data model, with views for free! This screencast will give you a Read the rest...
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Category: Rails, Ruby
, Toolkit
, Unobtrusive JS
Luke Redpath and Dan Webb have released version 0.3 of their plugin for Rails to allow unobtrusive javascript. UJS now has its own dedicated website with docs and Trac. Discussion of this plugin on the official Rails blog shows there is interest in this plugin from members of Rails core, but it will most likely Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
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