So after a lot of work (mostly done by the three other members of the team – Richard White, Lance Ivy and Ed Moss) the new shiny version of AjaxScaffold has reached RC1 and is available under its new name ActiveScaffold. Richard White gives a bit more info about it on his blog. This will [...]
I haven’t had much cause to play with the Time module in Ruby until today. I have used Time.now quite a bit, but not too much more than that. However, today I had to find the last 6 months names to label a graph and in a short period of time I had come up [...]
I’m not entirely sure how this has happened, I suspect that RailsPlayground has moved to 1.2.1 (without telling anyone), but it appears that this blog no longer has styles……… Brilliant. My apologies. Anyway, gonna freeze to 1.1.6 for the mo, so hopefully that should fix it.
We released a new version of AS today which fixes the issues with prototype and rico when using Rails 1.2.1. For details of the issue you can see my previous post. This is simply a fix for the v3 plugin and contains none of the new (and very exciting stuff) coming in v4. It should [...]
There is an issue with the latest release of Rails and AjaxScaffold. Well actually the problem is in a conflict between Prototype and Rico Corner, if you find that all the AJAX stops working – lots of spinning indicators and not much else you have three choices, wait a little and we will likely release [...]
So, it turns out the Amazon links thing is actually ok on the individual post pages, just not here on the main page of the site. I guess that in any indiviual post the relative frequencies of words are sufficient to mean the algorithm is effective. Whereas here the dilution of many posts means it [...]
I was pointed to a couple of very interesting services over the weekend that attempt to cluster people around the sites they are currently visiting. They are InCircles and Medium. The former is something you install in your site (see the sidebar) and it allows people to chat while visiting it (to you or each [...]
So a couple of weeks ago we (Cominded) put up RailsPays, a free job board for Rails jobs in the UK. These can be anything – full time, part time, contract, etc so long as they are to do with Rails. I have to admit the idea was driven by the trouble we have had [...]
Amazon have a (beta) feature called Self-Optimizing Links which can be seen in the Books section of the sidebar on my blog. This is supposed to chose books to display by parsing the content of the site – so I thought I would give it a go and see how good the optimization really is. [...]
I”ve been asked a couple of times how to dynamically setup the columns displayed by the AS plugin dependant on the permissions of the user, so I though a quick post would be a good idea. Basically its very simple, you simply define a hash of all the columns you potentially wish to display keyed [...]
