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RJS & MinusMOR

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
RJS rocks. It lets me write JavaScript without writing any JavaScript. That’s very Zen, and I like it. But sometimes I find myself writing really...

Moving To The Edge, Or Thereabouts

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So I tried to update my OS X dev box to GemRails 1.2 RC 1 and ran into some issues the other day. For some reason, I just couldn’t seem to get system...

Happy Thanksgiving: Rails 1.2 RC 1 Arrives!

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
In case you haven’t already heard, Rails 1.2 RC 1 is out. Click here for details. Taking center stage this time seems to be the push towards creating...

Prototype vs YUI Connection Manager: Dialog Continued...

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
In the last blog entry, I wrote about doing a first pass integration between Rails and the Yahoo UI Library’s Dialog widget. In the event handler...

YUI Dialog On Rails: First Pass

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
RoR seamlessly integrates with Prototype and the Scriptaculous library, buying us slick auto-complete fields, sortable lists, some nifty effects and all...

Down w/ with_scope

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
We need to delete some stuff. But when we delete items, we don’t really delete them because hey, we don’t have to (we might want them later...

In My Younger And More Vulnerable Years...

over 5 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Thus began the Zerosum dev blog, a place for folks who work on our code to muse about daily development happenings and such. I’ve never been one to...