More useful JS: Prototype revisited

OK, for those of you watching from the sidelines, remember when we talked about the Prototype framework, and I said it could be done slicker? I am now correcting those little errors. First of all, I was not using enough parts of Prototype, and so I was doing unnecessary stuff, and also, I was leaving …

DHH handles trollish comments well

Yeah, [Ruby on Rails is 1.0](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2005/12/13/rails-1-0-party-like-its-one-oh-oh) Someone comments on the project’s website running PHP: > How’s this deployment of PHP based “RoR website” related to believing in your own technology, I ask? And the project lead answers: > We’re running PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby on this machine. Picking and choosing for whatever task is …

Prototype grows on me

Usually, these days I add a comment to a Delicious link, building on the mountain of metadata of the commons, but this calls for more verbose plappering: Prototype Meets Ruby: A Look at Enumerable, Array and Hash from the [Encytemedia blog](http://encytemedia.com/blog/), written by Justin Palmer. The [Prototype](http://prototype.conio.net/) Javascript framework implements a lot of the “language …

Useful Javascript: Prototype for your forms

Proposed subtitle: “Ease into Prototype.” You started using the [Prototype JS lib](http://prototype.conio.net/) everyone was talking about. Everyone was doing AJAX stuff, animating little boxes, and you did not have the time for that. You had a day job. But then one day: a use case appeared. You inserted some stuff in the HTML, in a …

Fasterfox: Get performance out of Firefox

My rambling thoughts when riding in the backseat of my uncle-in-law’s car yesterday: “Wouldn’t it be good to have the Google Accelerator in a small way, like local, user-controlled, and… integrated in something I already use? The pre-fetch of webpages I am going to look at, and so on… Those can be good features. But …

CakePHP news: Data Bindings v0.1 Example

You might know that I am involved in the [CakePHP framework](http://www.cakephp.org/) project, and I’m developing web sites with it now. On the IRC channel today, I was alerted to the existence of the Bindings sister project. Now they have an example up, for all to see. Data Bindings v0.1 Example is a piece of very …

Delicious: Re-use of metadata

I have now added even more stuff to that bloated sidebar of mine. Perhaps you also have a delicious feed, and a WordPress blog? [Grab this plugin](http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2004/10/15/delisious-cached/) to get started. The folks at Del.icio.us have made it really simple to use their data. Just look at [their documentation of their HTML feeds](http://del.icio.us/help/html). > HTML feeds …