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SuperHappyDevHouse 17 is happening this Caturday on Cinco de Mayo.I, for one, welcome our new lolcat overlords.
RSVP on upcoming

Widgets = (Partials + Helpers) in their own directory
Ah yes, widgets. Assuming you’re familiar with Rails, these babies are a cross between helpers and partials. The idea is that they can encapsulate a piece of UI logic and template, sort of similar to the idea of components, only so much more lightweight.
Before widgets, you could […]

This post is about a problem I’ve been trying to solve for a while now. I have a large data structure that represents, in the most general case, all the relationships between the data in a relational database. It’s like a big directory of all the contents in a database with tons of symbolic links. […]

While I was at the DevHouse, I mentioned Joshua to some people. Kragen pointed me to Jesse Ruderman’s JavaScript Shell. Alright, so it’s been done before. In fact, Jesse does everything I wanted and more, and is even more clever in implementation.
Then later, David pointed me to MochiKit’s Interpreter demo. Well, that wasn’t as […]

Let me start by admitting to how wrong I was about not being able to introspect on functions in Javascript. Why didn’t anybody tell me? It turns out that using Prototype’s $H function strips out function properties from an object. I suppose that makes sense, so now I get object properties the old-fashioned way with […]