“Ajax Design Patterns” – Book of the Month
Ajax Design Patterns is Book of the Month in this month’s .Net mag (p.23, Issue 155, October, 2006). Incidentally, the mag is about the ‘Net, not specifically MS .Net (which it pre-dates).
Odeo: Engineering Against Customer Loyalty
GigaOM discusses “How Odeo Screwed Up”. Odeo is a service I want to like. I promoted it to others when it came out and I frequently use it as an example of the Richer Plugin pattern as it uses an...
The Uncanny Valley of Programming Languages
Coding Horror mentions Applescript’s well-intentioned attempt to feel like English. Quoting John Gruber
Rails: Finding Who Called A Partial
So you’re coding a partial and you want to know which template has pulled it in. The magic word is “@first_render”, which will give you something like “homepage/admin” for the homepage/admin.rhtml template. Trivial, I know, but I couldn’t find any...
How Rails Handles Use of Reserved Keywords, Wow!
I didn’t ever expect to get excited about how a framework handles keywords, but Rails just impressed me big-time. When I tried to create a model named “Activity”, Rails told me it was reserved and then came back with a...