Lesson of the day:Do not assume that:
Because your web application is essentially a popup window (but in a good way)
And you’ve been working on a way to open multiple sessions (read as popup windows) to your application and have them all communicate with each other seamlessly
And QA keeps opening bugs on this functionality that are [...]
A genius I can only presume is named Kevin Clark has posted a nice little explanation about symbols and hashes in Ruby.If you’re using Ruby on Rails and have been having issues with some of the syntax constructs(like render :action => “short_goal”, :layout => “spectacular” for example), take a gander. It’s soooo much clearer [...]
So I’ve been using Drivel for posting at work, and Ecto at home.Ecto, of course, is the ultra-sweet desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows. It’s super-polished, runs like a dream, and has a really nice Rich Text editor (with preview mode).Drivel is the linux version :). It’s a little buggy (the category [...]
At work, we make heavy use of exceptions and exception handling via Error.pm Error.pm has it’s issues (primarily with memory leaks and non-intuitive behavior, but we’ve been able to work our way around them for the most part.But there’s something that has become a bit of a deal-breaker for me: Lack of [...]
Boy, you know you’re up too late when you notice that this is the second time you’ve seen this episode of SportsCenter.I love the late-night hacking, but I hate the early morning after the late-night hacking.
Boy, that last post was WAY too much work. I’ve gotta figure out a decent way to post code to this mug.
So, I’ve got a web form that has a required <select> input field. I really need a way to ensure that the user has actually selected something. Now, the way that I’ve learned to do this before is something a-like dis:<select name=’pirates’>Â Â <option value=’none’ selected>Choose-a-Pirate</option>Â Â <option value=’blackbeard’>Black Beard</option>Â Â <option value=’longjohnsilver’>Long John Silver</option>Â Â <option value=’stevejobs’>Steve Jobs</option></select> <script>function check-a-pirate() [...]
This is a test of the BlogGTK system. If this were an actual post, there might be content. Or something.
Testing “Textile”:http://www.bradchoate.com/mt-plugins/textile
Hmm. Links don’t work. How about *strong* or **bold** text?
_edit:_ There’s a nice little pull-down for Text Formatting which specifically offers Textile 2 as a formatting method. Paint me retarded.
Let’s try some syntax highlighting:
bc[perl].
my $foo = “bar”;
“What’s this Ruby on Rails thing of which you speak, Mando?”
I’ve heard this about a million times from my throngs of readers over the past day. Okay, maybe not a million times, but at least a thousand. Well, maybe not a thousand, but at least several hundred.
Okay, okay! Sheesh. No one [...]