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 […]
Here’s an interesting snippet I found today from a 4 color rebellion interview with the maintainer of a Japanese gaming site called Nintendo iNSIDE.
What do you think the difference is between Japanese and western games?
I don’t know completely, but the image in my head is that Japanese games are handmade whereas Western games seem to […]
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 […]
JS/UIX inpsired me to finally make a Javascript console that’s better than alert(eval(prompt(”Console”))), so I made this interactive Javascript console.
Apparently FireBug came out and is really awesome, and it is, but I wanted a more texty way to debug my Javascript. That basically requires tab-completion, which I have, but I realized that I can’t […]
Join us for the DevHouse to celebrate its six month anniversary on Saturday, December 10th!
After 5 successful gatherings, the DevHouse has become the Bay Area’s premier event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. Not to mention our recent addition of Geek Pitches, which has made the DevHouse also […]
Not long ago, David Heinemeier Hansson blogged on the official Rails site about the new upcoming release candidate. Lots of great things are going to be coming out with this release, including a plugin manager for the new plugin system that came out with the 0.14 release. Since this plugin system has been available, a […]
Have you ever noticed Apple is much better at using verbs in the labels of their command buttons than Microsoft? Apple uses the labels “Go Back” and “Continue” in their wizards, where Microsoft would use “Back” and “Next.” I love this. It was one of the first things I noticed when I switched to OS […]
Today I bought a lifetime supply of hosting from TextDrive. Yep. For a good number of months, I’ve been praising them as the best shared hosting service for developers and elite techies alike, but only today have I put my money where my mouth is. Cool beans, eh? Now allow me to indulge in writing […]