jQuery Hell...
For you, not for me. (I kinda had fun with it.)
Did this for our MoFoCamp demo tonight in a matter of minutes. Our port of a Tetris clone didn’t go as well (despite having a whole hour to work on that), but we got some practice with with speed JavaScripting. Lotta fun and I want to do it again (different framework next time though).
Nice to finally have some representation...
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. --Inaugural Address by Barack Obama
And I like this quote from his family histories regarding his upbringing:
...my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.Read more...
History...
…sponsored by Paul Blart, Mall Cop.
The Merb workout begins...
At this point I’m raising my eyebrows far less often than I did with Rails. It’s just easier to grok.
Read more...Yay for plug-n-play Honda parts!
Not happy with the $100 price tag, but it arrived in the mail and I just popped it in. Not bad.
Read more...XScreensaver OS X...
The OS X port of XScreensaver is simple, stable, and unobtrusive as far as I can tell. Unfortunately you can’t (easily) pipe program output into Phosphor and other textual screen savers, but other than that they’re spectacular.
I did toss out some of the less impressive ones, though. Here’s what I kept installed:
Read more...Extlib for everyday use...
Looks like a couple of my core enhancements may be reinventing the Extlib wheel, so…
irb(main):002:0> "foo\nbar".compress_lines NoMethodError: compress_lines not defined from /Users/jay/ruby/lib/utility/enhancements.rb:12:in `method_missing' from (irb):2 irb(main):003:0> exit
FAIL. A tweak to DeferredActiveSupport (now DeferredExtensions)…
-module DeferredActiveSupport
+module DeferredExtensions
def method_missing(method, *arguments, &block)
require 'activesupport'
+ require 'extlib'
class String
- include DeferredActiveSupport
+ include DeferredExtensions
#And other classes...
And retry:
jay@dandelion:~ $ /Users/jay/Shortcuts/ruby\ shell irb(main):001:0> "foo\nbar".compress_lines => "foo bar"
Yay! I don’t even know everything I’ve gained yet. Time to play around a bit.
Read more...Fun QuickSilver stuff...
Set your Search Mode to “Snap to Best”. That’ll make sure your last selected action jumps to the top for a given subject.
Typing “.” (period) gets you free text entry as the subject. Pretty handy in conjunction with “Run Command in a Shell”.
Read more...Heard this one before, but I have new appreciation for it…
On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --Charles BabbageRead more...