I was ten minutes late to the first session of the CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web Apps conference because I took the wrong bus. By the time I got to my seat, the auditorium was full with techies illuminated by the glow of laptops and Dick Hardt was on stage talking about Identity 2.0. Dick [...]
I received an email asking me how to best enhance the comment model from the Acts as Commentable plugin. It seems like a user of the plugin wants to add some rails validation to the comment model class. I have to admit that I would have just edited the plugin code in place, in fact [...]
Posted in Ruby, TechKnow |
It is soo true that if you work for a startup you end up wearing multiple hats. I work for a very small startup and I wear more hats that the Queen of England. One of those hats is of a Visual Basic developer. Most business applications are not fancy or web two point ooh-y, [...]
I took the Summer of Rails challenge and put together yet another social bookmarking ajax rich site! Yurlz is all about your urls. Yurlz allows you to share, distribute, comment, rate, and discuss your favorite websites by bookmarking and tagging them. Yurlz was put together using Ruby on Rails, Yahoo! UI library, Acts as Taggable, [...]
Dave Naffis recently wrote Ruby on Rails, Ajax & CSS Star Rating System, a quick and simple tutorial that describes the steps necessary to integratin a star rating system into your Ruby on Rails application. The tutorial makes good use of the Acts As Rateable rails plugin previously covered here. About the development effort required [...]
Posted in Ruby, TechKnow |