Archive for July, 2008

Poor wording for gmail

Come on google. That’s like UI 101: “Don’t always use” that’s bad.

links for 2008-07-30

Developing Adobe® AIR™ Applications with HTML and Ajax
(tags: air localconnection howto)

Open Source Rails | Spree
(tags: rails commerce opensource open source shoppingcart shopping cart credit card process)

Additions to the Motionbox Eventhandler

I've been working on some additions to the Motionbox EventHandler. It hasn't moved to master yet, but you can check out the defer_functions branch.
The two major additions are:

The ability to subscribe to Objects (rather than just css rules)
The ability to defer firing of functions (using a setTimeout)

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JavaScript:

var someObj = {
  foo:  'bar'
};
MBX.EventHandler.subscribe(someObj, "customFunc", [...]

links for 2008-07-29

Intridea - Fetches: Bringing Your ActionController its Slippers
(tags: fetches plugin rails rest easy)

links for 2008-07-25

one small voice » Quick OAuth Notes
(tags: xmpp oauth api pubsub ajaxian client)

a little bit of zeank » JSJaC
(tags: javascript jabber client juggernaut box interesting scaling messaging)

links for 2008-07-24

Criminal Searches - Home
(tags: criminal record search free background people)

Nginx Upload Module
(tags: nginx upload module pass path not)

Screw-Unit javascript mocking

I'll try to blog more about screw-unit javascript testing (since it's awesome!). However, I just wanted to alert everybody about my fork at github, which will let you mock out various things in your tests.
Let me know what you think.
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JavaScript:

//
// DOM mocking
//
TH.insertDomMock('some_mock'); // which will insert the file dom_mocks/some_mock.html into a div
//
//
// Object [...]

links for 2008-07-22

Amtrak Coupon Codes - all coupons, discounts and promo codes for amtrak.com
(tags: coupon codes amtrak boston)

Amtrak Coupons, Discounts & Promotions - Amtrak.com Coupon Codes
(tags: northeast amtrak coupon)

links for 2008-07-18

Google Analytics Plugin for Rails with local cache support | Open Sourcery
(tags: analytics rails plugin tolook)

links for 2008-07-17

Sexy Forms in Rails
(tags: rails forms sexy form_with_label with_label labels required)

How to read web feeds (RSS, Atom) using the standard Ruby library « rubybook = Blog.new :title => “Gerald Bauer’s Ruby Notebook”, :about => “Internet Professional in Vancouver, B.C.”
(tags: rss ruby standard library simple easy really)

http://brainspl.at/nginx.conf.txt
(tags: nginx config configuration file text slyphon)

Shu questions answered and [...]