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Bish Cam Premiere
Last night I went to the premiere of my best friend, Krishna's first full skateboard film, Bish Cam. Two showings were held at the new Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle - an early performance...
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<button> it!
Vitamin does link to some good stuff. Latest in the list is an article on Digital Web Magazine by Aaron Gustafson about the poor, neglected button form element. I have to admit I am one who'd seen ...
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AJAX put to good, simple use
One of the most simple uses for AJAX is to monitor form input and then let the user know whether what they've entered is likely to be acceptable/available (e.g. choosing a username at signup). Even...
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Windows Vista RC1
Writing this from Word 2007 beta on Windows Vista RC1
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cPanel + Apache 2.2 + mod_proxy_balancer + mongrel_cluster + hours of frustration =
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Fun with servers
The site was down overnight after I took the leap and started updating to Apache 2.2, support for which has finally been added to CPanel EDGE builds. Once I had everything installed and updated,...
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Session management options in Rails
Found via Ruby Inside, Chris Wanstrath has posted a great round-up of a developer's options for session management within Rails. Stefan Kaes' solution looks like the one I'm gonna go for in the ...
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Mongrel upload progress
Something I check on the status of now and then is the ability to have a nice upload progress bar for uploads via the browser. Sean Treadway's initial example looked great but required special serv...
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Sortable list woes
My previous post mentioned FireBug and how handy it is in tracking/debugging AJAX requests and code. This was particularly important as the problem I'm having is with Sortable lists (in tree form) ...
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Got the FireBug
I spent part of my weekend doing a bit more work on my super-semi-secret Rails CMS, especially on part of the admin area that involved some nice AJAX effects that of course caused more trouble than...