TextMate 1.5

January 6th, 2006

The nice guys over at Macromates just released TextMate 1.5, the good-lookin’ editor you get to see in also those nice Ruby on Rails screencasts.

If you’re on OS X and not using it, you’re either a die-hard fan of some ancient editors, or you’re not into programming.

Ruby on Rails Workshop in Austria

January 4th, 2006

Sebastian Gräßl is doing a Workshop on Ruby on Rails in Graz, Styria on January 21 and 22.

It’s cheap too, so if you want to start with Ruby on Rails, there’s no excuse now…

IRC channel for Prototype and script.aculo.us

December 30th, 2005

You asked for it, so the Prototype JavaScript framework and script.aculo.us now have their very own IRC channel on irc.freenode.net:

So, join the discussion on irc.freenode.net in the #prototype channel!

Need tooltips?

December 28th, 2005

Need to add some tooltips or in-page popups to your web site or web app?

Check out Tooltip.js, built with Prototype and script.aculo.us!

script.aculo.us V1.5.1 out now

December 28th, 2005

script.aculo.us V1.5.1 is available now. Besides fixing bugs, some new features have made it in.

Also, Edge Rails now features support for the new toggling effects, so you can do:


visual_effect :toggle_slide, 'element'
visual_effect :toggle_blind, 'element'
visual_effect :toggle_appear, 'element'

Have fun!

Btw, the new year will bring even more nice new features…

Unicode-escaping h() variant

December 22nd, 2005

Put this in application_helper.rb:


def u(html)
  h(html).gsub(/([^x00-x9f])/u) { |s|
    "&#x%x;" % $1.unpack('U')[0] }
end

This will automatically output 香-style HTML entities where needed.

I’m using it for escaping HTML inside of Edge Rails .rjs templates, to ensure compatibility across browsers (especially Safari seems to be a bit buggy here with support for UTF-8 in Ajax calls).

Keep your Rails app on the script.aculo.us edge

December 21st, 2005

Want an easy way to stay on the latest script.aculo.us SVN trunk for your Ruby on Rails app?

Read the tip over at Rails Weenie.

IE Mac retiring

December 19th, 2005

Finally, Microsoft retires Internet Explorer for Mac.

Next Step: Retire the Windows version, too.

Well, let’s hope IE 7 fixes at least some of the annoyances…

TextMate manual, 1.1 release coming

December 16th, 2005

The nicest editor around now has a brand new manual, plus 1.1 is around the corner.

So, all of you who watched the videos in awe, now it’s a great time to get youself TextMate.

Upcoming features for script.aculo.us

December 14th, 2005

With script.aculo.us 1.5 finally out, it’s now time to add great new features. The SVN trunk already has some brand-new stuff added:

Effect.toggle allows silly easy implementation of toggling elements with Slide, Blind and Appear/Fade effects: Effect.toggle('element_id','slide')
Effect defaults can now be set globally by manipulating the Effect.DefaultOptions hash
Scoped effect queues for multiple parallel running effect queues: Effect.Appear('element_id', {queue:{scope:'myscope', position:'end'}})
Dynamic loading of components allows you to tune your site per-page for including only the script.aculo.us components you need: <script src="scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript"></script>
New Effect.Move that replaces the old Effect.MoveBy that also allows for absolute movement: new Effect.Move('element_id', {x:30, y:10, mode: 'absolute'})