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Comment on Icons are evil; so are menus - unless you do them right by T.J.

T.J. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:19:43 +0000

Someone please forward this to the MS Office Devs.

Comment on Keeping up with Firefox 3: Improvements, bugs and missing features in the new bookmark manager by Arindam

Arindam — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:36:57 +0000

Can some body tell me how to update the Bookmark Database.
Scenarios:
I have intalled FF3.0 in system A. I have some bookmark in system A. I also have a system B with FF3.0. Now I wanted to import all the Bookmark from System B and update the System A FF3.0 Bookmarks.

Comment on Skinning Flex with Illustrator CS3 by Flex skinning with Illustrator CS3 | Good Times & Happy Days

Flex skinning with Illustrator CS3 | Good Times & Happy Days — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:06:41 +0000

[...] yet to try CS4 and it’s all new Illustrator -> Flex tools, but here’s a great tutorial/article on using Illustrator CS3 to get scalable skins into Flex. Spread the [...]

Comment on GWT, Gadgets and OpenSocial, Part 2 by Dietrich Kappe

Dietrich Kappe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:13:34 +0000

@Eric

You’re stealing my thunder for part 3.

Comment on GWT, Gadgets and OpenSocial, Part 2 by Eric Ayers

Eric Ayers — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:09:08 +0000

Note that the dialog box might not look right if you follow this example. This is because the styling of the default application doesn’t work right in a gadget environment. The sample application “HelloGadgets” distributed with gwt-gadgets includes a pared down stylesheet.

Comment on Icons are evil; so are menus - unless you do them right by EP

EP — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:49:30 +0000

I think what you mean to say is that icons don’t make a bad interface better.

Comment on What makes a good requirement document for an agile project by Fabrice

Fabrice — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:58:52 +0000

Great post! Was looking for a simple/efficient template to write my specs. Would be even better with a real life sample

Comment on Rails, AMF and Flex by sean

sean — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:18:14 +0000

@jblanche - Flex is great, but if you’ve never used it before you’ll definitely end up writing obtuse code.

Try the Mate Framework - it is very good and definitely mature enough for production now.

Keep in mind that Flex is much more powerful than HTML/JS for a front-end, but it is also much more difficult. Be patient with it, or hire a Flex developer.

Comment on Has Many has_many: A Refactoring Story by Piotr Sarnacki

Piotr Sarnacki — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:07:57 +0000

Great refactoring story

I love refactoring my old code and seeing progress I made.

Only one thing I would change - I would rather not place this kind of modules in initializers. If one of the gems fails initializers won’t be run and you will end up with en error.

Cheers

Comment on Elements of Ruby Style by Barry

Barry — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:38:48 +0000

@Harry,

Maybe even
return if x.nil?

Comment on Helpers and Partials by Noel Rappin

Noel Rappin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:11:46 +0000

Seban — I meant to mention HAML in the original post, but I guess I forgot. Basically, I think that as long as you factor it well, and your designers are willing to work with it it’s fine, though I don’t see it as a huge breakthrough.

Although I like the indent block thing — I was a happy Python programmer for a long time — it does break down on very long blocks, and poorly factored view code does have a lot of long blocks. Those people here who are primarily working with HTML had a pretty negative reaction to some sample HAML code that I was showing around.

Comment on TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development by Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:11 +0000

Like Sebastian, it’d be great if you had some view examples!

Comment on TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development by Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:17:28 +0000

Thanks guys, this is great. I got it to work right away.

Comment on A mea culpa, and a launch date, for Really Simple History 0.8 by f

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:53:41 +0000

+1 on “Appreciate what you’re doing.. just wanted to ping for an update”

Comment on Elements of Ruby Style by Juixe TechKnow » The Rubyist: October Edition

Juixe TechKnow » The Rubyist: October Edition — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:16:43 +0000

[...] Elements of Ruby Style [...]

Comment on Helpers and Partials by Doug Johnston

Doug Johnston — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:33:43 +0000

Great post! I wish I would’ve read something like this a couple of years ago. I still have a fair amount of legacy code that needs to be refactored into the “fewer helpers, more partials” model.

For a long time, I felt like creating a partial (and thus adding another file to my app) made it more complex. But, it’s certainly better than bloated helper code.

The Rails Textmate bundle is a lifesaver for this sort of refactoring. Highlight a chunk of view code, hit Ctrl-Shift-H, name your new partial and it does all the rest!

http://github.com/drnic/ruby-on-rails-tmbundle/tree/master

Comment on Developer’s Notebook: Mastering (your fear of) regular expressions by hans

hans — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:06:45 +0000

This tool is very easy for js rexexp testing.

http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/regtest.htm

Comment on What does your CSS Swiss Army knife look like? by Sitene Ekle

Sitene Ekle — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:58:23 +0000

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) web design lessons
Css link Properties Attributes - examles

http://css-lessons.ucoz.com/link-css-examples-1.htm
http://css-lessons.ucoz.com/link-css-examples-2.htm

Comment on From JSP to Ruby on Rails: First thoughts on front-end coding conventions by charlie bowman

charlie bowman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:15:54 +0000

One solution I’ve used is to create a presenter for each one of the displayable models. Each presenter can follow the same inheritance structure as the model and can really help to clean up those nasty helper methods.

Comment on Custom Flex 3 Lightweight Preloader with source code by kalluru

kalluru — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:58:02 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for proving such a beatiful component code,I am trying to use this preloader for AIR application its not working and its perfectly working for Web app’s.Pls clarify me that preloder concept will work for AIr,if possible provide some sample.

Thanks & Regards
Kalluru