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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...

Song Lyrics Without the Suck

11 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Over the past few years I’ve been involved with a number of music-related web projects, including Loudwerkz, DMOD (RIP), and Ink19. Although I make...

Geeks on a Train

10 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Geeks on a Train starts today! This afternoon I’m leaving Dalian, Liaoning, China for a 10-day journey across China’s tech ecosystem with a...

Building Android Apps with Mirah and Pindah

10 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I gave a talk earlier today at the Beijing Ruby group today about my experiences building native Android applications with Mirah and Pindah. Although I...

The Wefunder Petition

4 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Kickstarter is awesome for funding creative projects. It’s one of my favorite startups at the moment, and it’s important. I lurves it. But I...