New York Tech Meetup July 6, 2010
Usual round-up of tonight’s NYTM with my brief annotations. Betterfly.com – A personal betterment site. “Learn look and feel better.”…
Kill IE 6
OK, so I feel it is officially time to kill IE 6 and below. IE 6 has been the bane…
New York Tech Meetup June 9th
The most dramatic thing at tonight’s New York Tech Meetup was, far and away, Scott Heifferman, founder of Meetup.com, smashing…
Text overflowing
Some experimentation with the text-overflow property. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”><html> <body><div style=”border: 1px solid red; max-width: 400px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:…
Two columns, one stretches with the window the other doesn’t
A little CSS pattern to demonstrate what to do when you want one column to stay at a fixed width…
Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; “super called outside of method”
I discovered an interesting difference between two patch levels of the same Ruby (1.8.7) def index respond_to do |format| format.html…
I want my @current_user in my model: A Lesson in Abstraction
This method was adapted from this blog post. So, you are creating a thing (record) or maybe you are updating…
How do I get the HTTP referrer?
The referrer is the URL the user came from. (It gets passed as part of the headers to the new…
Public, Private, Protected
Quick demonstration of public, private, and protected methods.
The Interface IS the Experience: Why the iPad Changes the Game
In 1984 the personal computer industry was forever changed by the first Mac. More expensive and less familiar than the…