Posts Tagged ‘ javascript ’

A few weeks ago I started a new side project (a string-figure catalog, not yet ready for an audience, sadly), and I figured it would be a good opportunity to dabble in the new goodies in Rails 3. It’s been a fun experience, for the most part, but I’ll save my “wins and fails”...
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With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system. For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today says: This is what I asked in January 2007 on this site, shortly after the original iPhone was launched: “1. Will Apple lock down the iPhone,...
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Up for my first manic burst of work for the day.DailyJS – A roundup of JavaScript stuff from Alex Young, Ric Roberts, and Justin Knowlden. It’s off to a promising start. Fixtures without validation with Factory Girl – Nice idea for generating bad data in a concise and repeatable way. fast_fixture – Develop with MyISAM, test...
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As mentioned in a recent article1, I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects. We’re aiming to use much more of the features of Google Analytics and have been hitting some roadblocks with the development versus production application environments. Once you begin to dive into event tracking...
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Riot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing. Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access. He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it or expand it -...
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Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on brainstormr.We posted Episode 2, The Letter Scotch, yesterday for your enjoyment. In this episode, we covered a handful of web browser tools that we use (and detest) to...
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There is no apparent end of code that needs to be written.wysihat-engine-demo – Quick way to see the wysihat editing control in action. RailsBridge Bugmash VM Script – Script to build your own server to test the Rails source code from zero. bigrecord – ActiveRecord replacement to use distributed stores like HBase. Heroku Add-ons – Solr, New...
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Tracking your KPI’s is extremely important in your online venture. At a minimum, you should be using something like Google Analytics to track conversions in your application. Setting up goals is actually quite simple, especially if you’re just tracking that specific pages are loaded. However, if some of your conversion points occur through AJAX,...
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Kids these days…whatever happened to sleeping in late?jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet – Sadly, “Visual” means “static PDF” but if you want a 6-page reference to the jQuery API with short descriptions and a few code snippets, here it is. ExtJS on Rails – Or you could look at yet another alternative javascript library....
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The early bird gets to put up links first.ken – Ruby API for accessing the ambitious Freebase. loofah – New HTML sanitizer built on top of nokogiri, complete with built-in Active Record hooks. JavaScript RegExp Tester – This came in handy the other day. Rails Bugmash August 2009: Before, During & After – Another view of...
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