Tuesday, November 27, 2007

aim high




Continually aim just beyond your current range. Good advice.



prototype




How well do you know Prototype, parts one and two.



jquery




How jQuery works. I've invested a lot of time in Prototype.js, but jQuery sure looks sweet, quite a few big wins over prototype.js.



ruby ec2




Managing your EC2 instances with Ruby.



sortable list




A very neat plugin sortable_list that lets you sort your lists easily. I've had to do this by hand quite a bit, I'll have to check this plugin out.



Integration Testing



dawn Landes - Young Folks (bluegrass style)

integration testing




Wow, I'm a total convert to Integration Testing in Ruby on Rails now. It's so powerful and very cool. I've been unit testing for about a year now, but just graduated to functional and integration testing, and it's amazing, especially integration testing, which simulates a person with a web-browser interacting with your application.



controller actions



assert_select




trawlr.com has a good writeup about assert_select with nice descriptions of some more complicated situations.



Monday, November 26, 2007

who am i?





bhairavi 631 [~] % whoami
sness


I think I might patch "whoami" to output from time to time:


bhairavi 632 [~] % whoami
you are a incandesent manifestion of the infinite universe






Cover: The Lakes of Canada

Sunday, November 25, 2007

dropdown menus




clubcard.ca has neat dropdown menus.



How to love and heal others as your larger self- Siddhanath

grooving




I'm really grooving on somptin hapnin by Adham Shaikh. Mmmm.



iridescent








Vitalic

VITALIC - My Friend Dario (Different Recordings)

Orchive




I'm also using the excellent Yahoo Grids CSS for doing the layout. Wow, after so long of doing all that CSS layout by hand, using YUI Grids/Fonts/Reset CSS is just so much better.

They solve so many problems for you, problems most of us don't even know exist, and I for one am using YUI CSS in all my new projects.



orchive




I'm designing the website for Orchive, an archive of 20,000 hours of Orca song. Here's some of the resources I'm using:

CSS Beauty
CSS Website
CSS Drive
CSS Gallery
Orca Live
Orca Lab