web2.0
Twitter Fuhrer
Aug 17th
Using TinyMCE as WYSIWYG editor
Jul 17th
Well, well, it’s been a month since we wrote… a lot of new stuff’s come out,
Our customer required WYSIWYG capability for editing their blogs, which they used
There are lots of Javascript editors out there.
TinyMCE was one of the coolest I found, with everything you need under the sky for WYSIWYG editing – link to pics, link to media, blockquotes etc…
If you plan on putting up WYSIWYG for your forms, here’s a link to download.
Rails training, anyone?
May 28th
I got a little lazy (well, a lot really… ) so i decided that i didn’t want to study Rails by reading, but by watching a video with a popcorn in hand (really hard to get good popcorn these days)
searching through the web for video tutorials, I came across this set of videos from guys at UC Berkeley RAD Lab… Never been to UCB, but I hear its a beaut… my kudos to the guys at UCB RAD…
the video filesizes are large… I nodded off waiting for it to stream… so you might wanna have a firefox extension do the downloading for you before you view them… here’s one. If you’re using IE… again, seriously?
anywho, check it out! i think it’s RAD! haha! (although i haven’t even gotten to the end of one yet, so no guarantees)
we’ll post some video tutorials up in the future – when we actually have time to kill… but we will… promise…
Sprint Review & Retrospect Meeting
May 26th
ahh… the good ol meetings… i used to think meetings kinda wanna make you feign sick and take leave… (then go and watch a movie… but that’s a different story…)
We just did the Sprint Review and Retrospect meetings for one of our projects. took us about less than 2 hours… we’re a pretty small team…
One thing we noticed was that when you keep improving on what you did on the last sprint, you get more – even tho it might be just abit – excited to go work on the next sprint. we realized that its because, doing the same thing for people who don’t leave their brains at home when they go to work is just plain boring and disengaging.
improvements bring fresh air… we’ve got 6 things to improve on the next sprint… and we’ve still got a long way to go… hang on!
prototype and scriptaculous is gonna have to wait a bit… we’re gonna need to tackle the really meaty stuff first… Basic Ruby for the team! oh god…
Ruby Cheatsheet Part Two!
May 12th
Finally, part 2 of the Ruby Cheatsheet is now complete! Click here to download the file from Scribd, which, by the way, is also an excellent site for lots of stuff… so kudos to the Scribd crew…
Part two gets you acquainted with the built-in stuff ruby provides to make your coding life easier and more fun (or confusing maybe?). Great help for you young apprentices who are looking forward to becoming Jedi Railers… (Nothing like geek speak to lighten up your day)
Now, about that project wall….
UPDATE: The combined version, part 1 and part 2 together, can be found here. I’ve made some improvements to the file to make it more readable – Acap
