http://demos.dojotoolkit.org/demos/cropper/
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Will, in classic Will-fashion, has been methodically developing deep knowledge and expertise in the Dojo.js. O’Reilly books purchased and read, flashcards created in YoYoBrain, Dojo implemented in YoYoBrain and in fact has replaced a great many of our Scriptaculous based UI elements. Now we are spec’ing a very cool Dojo.js based widget. Similar to techniques [...]
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You can use the same flashcards we used to gain deep knowledge ASAP of Ruby on Rails syntax and inner workings. Check out our Rails Subject and Flashcards Just click on the “study materials” tab and choose a set of flashcards. Here is a link directly to a memorization drill: A set of Ruby on [...]
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Many Web sites I have seen have little or know idea of the volume of JavaScript errors their pages generate. Maybe its because some programmers regard JavaScript as “dinky” or outside their domain. Maybe its because the differences in browsers and conditions that exist in the wild produce a potentially depressing volume of fringe cases, [...]
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The idea of listening to podcasts while driving has been a tremendous success. I love the Pragmatic Programming interviews and am looking forward to branching out after I get through their backlogs. They have inspired me to get serious about learning a second JavaScript framework which will probably be Dojo, as I have already built [...]
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Software development is huge portion of cost in our business. I have recently read a great many articles using the need for a “homogeneous architecture” as a reason to avoid open source…This rationale is a straw man with a fundamental error in its assumptions: The Web is not homogenous, there are multiple layers of software [...]
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Want to save money – significant money just through javascript? Adopt an open source javascript framework like YUI, prototype.js or dojo or any of the other well supported frameworks, and you will save money and gain enormous leverage. 1. The open source community tests these libraries in a way your IT department or clients cannot [...]
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The Mephisto blogging system seems to be quite alright now that I have it set up. This is my first go with liquid templates and they have been very easy to understand. I hope support for the Mephisto project gets revitalized. [authors note: As of May 2010, we are moving everything over to our WordPress [...]
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This is a brief post for anyone powering multiple blogs with Mephisto for Rails. Here is a good article with rewrite rules that work, and a link to a great explanation of the process: http://www.appelsiini.net/2007/6/mephisto-multiple-site-config here is a useful article on the entire process: http://www.mslater.com/2007/6/1/setting-up-mephisto-for-multiple-sites Some notes: the current version of Mephisto lets you add [...]
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