A question came up the other day when I was showing a colleague the reservation page for the restaurant app I’ve recently written (http://alianosbatavia.com): If the restaurant is closed, can you dynamically exclude dates from the JQuery date picker? The answer was yes – but I hadn’t found a nice way to do it. The […]
Parting ways with http://alianosbatavia.com has been a lot harder than I thought. Every time I think I’m going to hang it up, I think of something new to add to it. Â Recently, I wanted to use simple caching to load blocks of reservations at start up, then refresh those blocks after each successful update of […]
It has been many years since I have read this much information on Design Patterns, and in those days the language the book was based on was Java. While the concepts still apply, Design Patterns in Ruby does a great job of walking through the classic patterns. First, the way we learned them – with […]
Here’s a quick one. Recently when doing some Rails work, I was using FormHelper to add a text area to an erb and couldn’t seem to get the size param to work. The Rails API docs clearly mention the use of the ‘:size’ param or the ‘:rows’ and ‘:columns’ params being acceptable. For what it’s […]
As we all know, skill retention has a lot to do with level of immersion and length of stay – the deeper you are into a particular technology and the length of time that you’re at that depth usually are directly related to how long you can remember a given technology, language, or practice. My […]
I just got through a few days of using jdpace’s PDFKit gem for rails. It is a very straightforward PDF generation tool for Rails which uses the wkhtmltopdf tool to generate PDF documents from HTML and CSS3. After watching the great-as-usual Railscast on the topic, there were just a couple of missing pieces that I […]
I’ve recently found myself involved in some RoR work. It took a bit to take my java blinders off, but since they’ve been off, the work has been great. With past Grails experience in mind, here are a few first observations after a couple of weeks of being a Rails dev under my belt. I […]
I think things. 