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Rails 2.x Changes to Separator Parameter on render_partial_collection

over 2 years ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
I recently upgraded a good sized Rails 1.2.6 app to Rails 2.3.4. Peter Marklund's excellent upgrade notes were an incredible help and for the most part...

Dump IE6?

over 2 years ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
There's a debate raging on the Internet over the fate of Microsoft's eight-year-old browser, Internet Explorer 6. The essence of that fight is this: IE6...

Using Anchor Text for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

~2 years ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
All over the web, I see hyperlinks where the active, clickable text is the phrase "Click here". How many times does this phrase appears on the internet...

Facebook Places

over 1 year ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
You may have heard about Facebook's answer to FourSquare, their recently released Facebook Places. As Facebook says, Places will make it so you "Never miss...

What is Crowdsourcing?

~1 year ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
We’ve all see the online CAPTCHAs that make you type in a pair of garbled words to prove you’re not a spam-bot. What you might not know is that by doing...

Five Ways to Market Your Site Before Your Web Application Launches

over 1 year ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
Launch a temporary site so that you start building “time credibility” with search engines. Search engines like to index sites that have been...

Protect Your Intellectual Assets with a Reconstitution Plan

~1 year ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
I once knew a small company that was effectively shut down because their internet service provider (ISP) had gone out of business. In order to recover the...

Programmers Who Launch

~1 year ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
My dad is a Vietnam Vet. He doesn't talk much about his war experiences, but one thing he did tell me is that there are two types of soldiers. Those who...

JQuery scrollTo + HTML5 not working in IE

11 months ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
I had an issue today using the scrollTo JQuery library with html5. Everything worked perfectly on Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but wouldn't work at all on...