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Hotkey Plugin

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Recently I needed to add hotkeys to our application for quick navigation. The result of this work is the Hotkey plugin, which I’m releasing today...

Rails Views: Rails Edge

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Recently I accepted an invitation to be a speaker at The Rails Edge, a series of unique Rails-related conferences brought to you by the folks at The Pragmatic...

Rails Views: Upgrade to 1.1.6!

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
A quick aside, since it’s important: In case you haven’t already heard the news, make sure you upgrade to 1.1.5 1.1.6 immediately due to...

Buzzwords and Pitchforks

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
A large portion of my life has been dedicated to the study of language. I studied and worked professionally with Arabic for a number of years, and have...

Scriptaculous Accordian

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
At work, I recently had to convert the moo.fx accordian to Scriptaculous. We wanted the effect, but weren’t willing to add another set of javascript...

Rails Views: Preprocessing Parameters

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
One of the trickiest things to deal with when developing complex interfaces in Rails is how to pass along objects as parameters. This is easy when you...

Safari and the Stray Comma

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Here’s a little tidbit. Safari doesn’t like stray commas in Javascript (Firefox just ignores them, and IE is too busy choking on everything...

Rails Views: Bulletproofing dom_id

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
In my eternal quest to stave off DOM ID collision, I recently had to make a few small changes to the original dom_id script from the indomitable Jamis Buck...

Rails Views: Getting In Context

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
So, here’s the problem. Let’s say that, in our application, we have different types of users that need to be able to do the same thing from...

RailsConf Facebook

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
The facebook for RailsConf 2006 is up and running—if you’re going to the conference, don’t forget to post! Many thanks to Rick Olson...