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 Research) that means a lot to our family (for the why just read what my sister wrote):
Thanks for listening.
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 found that when selecting a single checkbox things worked ok, but when selecting multiple the values would bleed across each other. I haven’t investigated this very far just switched to check_box_tag instead (no hidden field).
Actually just found this post mentioning that the checkboxes might be broken in Rails 2.0.2. Which could be the cause of the issue.
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 a play.
I like the default look and feel too, very clean. Good job guys.
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 post there are in fact 2 new people to join the SlimTimer team, myself and Daniel Beardsley.
The most interesting thing about the new subscription model is that, like Radiohead’s In Rainbows, you get to decide how much your subscription should be. The system will make a recommendation of a price dependent on your usage – its up to you whether you accept that price or lower it, or even up it!!!
Has to be said PayPal made it far more complicated than it needed to be to add the subscription feature. NOT, I must add from a technical perspective, but from the shear volume of documentation and some quite convoluted navigation on their developer site. I will post how we did it soon(ish).
I added the UserVoice feedback system to the FCKeditor demo page today. So any bugs or ideas for the plugin can be stored in a central place. If you have found any issues recently (and can be bothered) it would be great if you could put them up there. I will copy over any ones I find going back over the comments. Ta.
I think this is great, very useful and gets YSlow off your back……
Key Features
Thank you Scott Becker
After a couple of months of intense coding Robert Loch and I launched RecommendBox yesterday. Its a site based around requesting and giving recommendations to your friends. There were a few immediate issues!! IE 6 is not yet fully supported, but on the whole it went ok. Now, sleep…….
Due to the incredible amount of spam it was getting I added a captcha today to the fckeditor demo using Captchator which is a pretty easy and quick way of doing it. It means you have to enter the text to create a new note but hopefully will mean things are a lot better.
I should point out that the spam was due to the site (i.e me and a false belief they wouldn’t find it) and nothing to do with the FCKeditor or the plugin.
There is a new version of the Fckeditor plugin available. It is a very minor bug fix release to deal with the improper constantizing of model names as reported by a couple of people. Oh and I also checked it works with Rails 2. The demo is running on 2.0.2.
The plugin is available from Ruby Forge or by doing this:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/fckeditorp/trunk/fckeditor
