I created a new release for the fckeditor plugin today. It upgrades the version of the editor to the lastest 2.6 and also fixes the SanitizeHelper include issue which was causing problems with the spell check. Other than that, little has changed. I think it is all still working ok, although I have only had [...]
So, next lesson from TweetLists: the user id given in the xml from the public timeline is not a unique identifier. The screen name is the only way to identify a user. I ended up with 17 different ids for one user!!! Hence, gave up fixed it and dropped the database – too much effort [...]
I released TweetLists last night, well actually this morning (about 3am), the idea being to try and capture a little of the zeitgeist on Twitter by aggregating the links people are talking about. At the moment there are 3 lists, the live feed, a popular feed (the links ordered by the number of times they [...]
So this plugin by Dr Nik Williams (no link available) does this: Link or freeze RubyGems into your rails apps, instead of just plugins. This allows you to ‘vendor everything’ – pushing all dependent gems into your rails app thus ensuring your application will be guaranteed to work when deployed. Your application is no longer [...]
Just been flicking through the cartoons at xkcd.com again and came across this one which made me chuckle: Also found the GeoHashing, Spontaneous Adventure Generator to be very interesting idea. Check it out.
So I went to see Roger Waters at the O2 last Monday and to be honest he was awesome. Played all of Dark Side of the Moon and most of the Wall. I took a fair few pictures but particularly liked this one which I thought I would share. Any guesses as to the song?
Just a quick thing, on the off chance that anybody reading this has got a bit of value out of the FCKeditor plugin or from Ajax / Active Scaffold; and maybe thought of donating something (unlikely I know, its not all that!!) or saying thanks, here is the opportunity: Sponsor my sister on something (Cancer [...]
Found a bit of a gotcha when building a form recently using form_for, fields_for and the check_box helper. Because Rails adds a hidden field for each checkbox and fields_for for new objects produces ids like ‘users_invites__selected’, if you try to generate multiple new objects in the same form things can get a little confused. I [...]
Just installed the new Firefox 3 RC1. Very cool. Seems to be very fast and stable. I had an instant and very positive reaction to it – mostly because there has been no visible slow down in the rest of the computer since I opened it (not something I could say about FF2). Well worth [...]
So, for the past few months (although mostly in the past month, in fact mostly in a few days last month) I have been working with Richard White on one of his projects SlimTimer. We have just released a new version which includes data exports, backups and premium subscriptions. As Richard points out in his [...]
