September 2008
6 posts
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Why MooTools (or Why not JQuery)
I’ve been toying around with MooTools a bit lately, and I’ve found the experience quite enjoyable and refreshing. Naturally, I twittered about it and went along my merry way. Moments later (and much to my surprise), I had a direct message from John Resig himself asking “Why, what’s wrong with jQuery?”. I was pretty taken aback that he would take time from his surely...
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Highlight link based on current page in rails
This is common pattern in website navigation, where it highlights the link (usually by setting class=”active”) that took you to the current page while you are on that page.
First, define a helper:
def is_active?(page_name)
"active" if params[:action] == page_name
end
Then call it in your link_to’s in your layout as such:
link_to 'Home', '/', :class =>...
Git Server tutorial
good git server tutorial, http://blog.commonthread.com/2008/4/14/setting-up-a-git-server
No way.
I’m sure we’ve all been in a variant of this situation…
Me: I'd like to talk to you about something...
Him: Let me guess - you want to use Smalltalk.
Me: Er, no...
Him: Lisp?
Me: Right.
Him: No way.
Taken from here
