Online tool to publish Word Documents to HTML
Although Word has a built-in “Export to HTML” feature, it has a host of problems that produce less than ideal…
JavaScript Introduction – Part 1 (Interpretation, Identifiers, and the var keyword)
I want to cover a basic but essential part of what you might expect in an introduction to JavaScript. This…
Building a multi-platform video player with jPlayer
The jPlayer library for playing videos is very good and well documented here
Access-Control-Allow-Origin (Cross Domain Resource Loading)
When a website that is running locally tries to access a remote web service. XMLHttpRequest cannot load Origin http://127.0.0.1 is…
New Software, Old Images (iTunes 10 gets a new logo)
Last week that Apple said that the new iTunes 10 logo has dropped the CD. This logo change received much…
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…
Three ways to invoke a method in ruby
There are three ways to invoke a method. Most of the time you’ll probably only need #1, but #2 and…
Rails Version History Chart
This is a work in progress. Rails Version Release month 2.0.0 Dec 2007 2.0.1 Dec 2007 2.0.2 Dec 2007 2.1.0…
Ruby Date & Time, format codes for the strftime method
strftime() turns a Date or DateTime into nicely formatted output. The following table shows the code you can use to…