Monthly Archives: September 2006

Using Mouse Wheel to Control script.aculo.us Slider

Posted on 09/30/2006 | Discussion Leave a comment | Filed under Example Code, Programming

You may have noticed that Google Maps will zoom in and out when you use your mouse wheel (or trackpad scrolling). If you want to do the same thing using the script.aculo.us JavaScript Slider here is an example to get … More

Boys & Girls Club Is Getting Viral With It

Posted on 09/27/2006 | Discussion 3 Comments | Filed under Gatherings, Horn Tooting

Today, I was fortunate enough to give a presentation on HTML to the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Greensboro. A number of directors from the local units came to Central Unit’s computer lab where they built their first … More

Earthlink’s Nonexistent World Domination

Posted on 09/26/2006 | Discussion 2 Comments | Filed under General, User Experience

As an Earthlink subscriber I noticed something odd about a month ago. Instead of my normal browser error when I entered a website that doesn’t exist I got redirected to this: You’ve got to see the page to believe it … More

Execute Rails Code Before the View is Rendered

Posted on 09/25/2006 | Discussion 5 Comments | Filed under Example Code, Programming

At one time, I was looking for a way to execute code for every action in my controller before the view was rendered. I saw this come up again yesterday in the #rubyonrails IRC channel so I looked at it … More

Don’t Submit Your Site to 300+ Search Engines

Posted on 09/20/2006 | Discussion Leave a comment | Filed under Tips

If you ever see a product or website that offers a service to submit your website to hundreds of search engines, here are some reasons not to do it. Link farms As search engines continue to become smarter they often … More

Writing a Custom FormBuilder in Rails

Posted on 09/19/2006 | Discussion 5 Comments | Filed under Example Code, Programming

I’m currently working on a Ruby on Rails application where I need lots of text fields that have the same properties. I decided to override text_field and have it output all of the extra attribues automatically. This helps keep the … More

Meetup: Blogsboro on Wed, Sept 20

Posted on 09/18/2006 | Discussion Leave a comment | Filed under Gatherings

If you’re around the Greensboro Triad area, and interested in blogging, make sure you join local bloggers at the next Meetup on Wednesday. It’s headed by Blogsboro’s very own ‘Billy The Blogging Poet‘ and free for all to attend. Come … More

Plugin: Bookmark A Page In Your PDF

Posted on 09/15/2006 | Discussion 162 Comments | Filed under Example Code, Programming, Tools

With the long, yet wonderful, books in PDF format these days (Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz [570 pages]; Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas, … More

Back In Blog-ness

Posted on | Discussion Leave a comment | Filed under General

It’s been almost a year since I had my “business” blog up and I’ve had the shakes ever since. The juices are flowing and I’m ready to get my fix. I hope you enjoy, absorb, and share the information.