Archive for April, 2008

Very cool wire hiding thing

I need my laptop to stand up and hide wires! http://www.bluelounge.com/spacestation.php.
Thanks SVN.

Rollovers using the Motionbox EventHandler

YUI has yet another nice writeup on unobtrusive rollovers.
I wanted to take a sec and show you how cleanly we've implemented it using our bubbling library: the Motionbox EventHandler.
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JavaScript:

var handleMouseover = function (evt) {
        var el = evt.element();
        var movingFrom = evt.relatedTarget;
        var isMouseover [...]

links for 2008-04-30

Peter's Blog - Lazy Function Definition Pattern
(tags: lazy function javascript definition howto)

Javascript Lazy Function Definition

This is an oldy-but-goody.
If you have an expensive function in javascript that will always return the same results... make it do its dirty-work only once:
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JavaScript:

var foo = function() {
    var t = new Date();
    foo = function() {
        return t;
    };
    return foo();
};

From: http://peter.michaux.ca/article/3556

links for 2008-04-29

Easy git-svn for Rails (or "git-me-up") - Effectif Development
(tags: git svn easy rails rubyinfo convert both)

Alieniloquent: Blog
(tags: git svn companion using this thing usingthisthing dcommit rebase methodology)

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
(tags: ux experience gin sitcom crucial technology article daring fireball daringfireball essential)

MacUpdate Promo - Big discounts on Mac software every day.
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-04-27

YUI Pages plugin 0.1.0 released —
(tags: yui css plugin goruco2008 rails grid helpers)

Plugins - Open Id Authentication - Agile Web Development
(tags: authentication openid plugin jump howto tutorial dhh)

brynary's Profile — GitHub
(tags: goruco2008 rspec github sdd story driven development)

DanNorth.net » What’s in a Story?
(tags: goruco2008 blog story driven development sdd tutorial best practice practices)

David Chelimsky
(tags: goruco2008 [...]

links for 2008-04-26

JavaScriptMVC
(tags: javascript mvc model view controller framework prototype toread beta interesting)

Vara Software : ScreenFlow - Professional Screencasting Studio
(tags: screencast jump topdog best intersesting)

links for 2008-04-25

Software as a Service Rails Kit | Rails Kits
(tags: software development pay railskit as a service saas buy subscription subscriptions)

monkeycharger - Google Code
(tags: monkeycharger monkey charge credit card creditcard store authorize rails app open source api rest)

Adobe - Design Center : The fake-space race: Design and the future of travel
(tags: remote sensing art adobe designcenter [...]

links for 2008-04-24

Ajaxian » Timeframe: Prototype date range component
(tags: javascript date range component prototype picker calendar js)

links for 2008-04-23

PicApp - the best content for the best publishers
(tags: free photo images royalty image blog embed post easy blogging)

Ajaxian » Google offers Search, Feed, and Translation APIs to Non Ajax Usage
(tags: google api feeds javascript interesting integrated jumpcanopy)

skwpspace – Useful git commands and quirks
(tags: git howto tips quirks programming version control interesting toread)

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