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Re: A Quick Guide to DRYML

mislav — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:59:35 -0000

I am not convinced. From what I understand, these custom tags are like functions - you define them, reuse them and they can take parameters. We had helpers all this time for that! Why reinvent the wheel just to replace Ruby methods with XML-like markup?

Re: A Quick Guide to DRYML

mislav — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:56:44 -0000

Why the choice of underscores instead of dashes, then? ("ul-for", "object-link" ...)

Re: Prototype 1.5.1 release candidate

mislav — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:30:00 -0000

Gio, can’t guess. But if you read the big red message box above the comment form, you would know that bug reports should be sent to the tracker ;)

You’re passing obj to the up method? Is that a string? It should be :S

Re: New in Prototype trunk: DOM builder

mislav — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:16:00 -0000

Jim: I stand corrected :)

Re: New in Prototype trunk: DOM builder

mislav — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:27:00 -0000

(Forgot)

Tobie: not only Safari chokes on unquoted keywords. IE does so, too.

Eimantas: it is very much alike scrip.aculo.us Builder. The latter has 2 extra features: you can define children and you can dump the node methods in some scope so you can get DIV and similar methods if you prefer that syntax.

It would be fairly easy to add both features to Prototype. But, for now, this is only a minimal builder that covers two most critical features: creating nodes and setting attributes. Building an additional API on top of that would be a piece of cake (and possibly left to the user).

Re: Paginating special queries

mislav — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:07:00 -0000

Nice writeup. But you didn't think outside the box when you went to use with_scope! Hop to ticket #66 to see what I meant.

Your writing style is really good, keep em coming, but please - put some more contrast on the design. When I'm reading your blog I feed blind :O
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Re: Paginating special queries

mislav — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:08:00 -0000

You complain about scope_out not being supported. But what about this: http://plugins.require.errt...

Re: Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes

mislav — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:43:00 -0000

Ah, “at”-signs were interpreted incorrectly in my previous comment. Just ignore them.

Re: Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes

mislav — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:37:00 -0000

Kniaź: No problem, wanting to help is always positive. We will definitely solve the Template issue, until then be sure to call “toObject()” when passing Hash data to your templates.

Re: Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes

mislav — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:51:00 -0000

Luis-

This is a major release we are speaking of, and APIs usually change in major releases. If you don’t want to change your old code you might scroll up to see one of my comments mentioning a blog post. I don’t really recommend it, though; it’s better to be safe with current Hash and getters/setters.

Re: Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes

mislav — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:19:00 -0000

Zuzmic: you might want to smack yourself on the head first and write new Element(‘div’).setStyle({ opacity: 0.5}) :)

Re: Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes

mislav — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:42:00 -0000

Woil: Tobie wanted to get true privacy for that object, but it would require jumping through hoops. I like it exposed, on the other hand, because I can access it in subclasses.

It’s definitely bad practice to access that object directly in app code. The underscore (“pseudo-privacy”) is an indicator of that.

Mike Rumble: nice demonstration! I’m pleased to see that at least somebody started to notice benefits of this approach.

BTW, you must be registered to the (Freenode) services before talking to Pastie bot. After that, just say hi to Pastie in public (“pastie: hi”).

Re: IM Integration With XMPP4r : Part 2

mislav — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:32:25 -0000

Frank,

It's great that you're writing about this. Both were excellent articles and I hope you'll keep it up.

Re: Pratik joins core, retired members go alumni

mislav — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:09:00 -0000

Go lifo! WohohooO!!1

Re: Pratik joins core, retired members go alumni

mislav — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:09:00 -0000

Go lifo! WohohooO!!1

Re: Import Gmail Contacts using Ruby on Rails

mislav — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:30:28 -0000

Or, simply use the Google Contacts Data API implemented in Ruby: http://github.com/mislav/co...

Re: Phusion Passenger 2.0.5 now compatible with Edge Rails

mislav — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:01:00 -0000

We wanted to see how much better Passenger performs than our mongrels behind nginx, so I switched over our staging environment to it:

1) god stop mongrels; 2) stop nginx; 3) install apache2; 4) install passenger gem; 5) configure apache to load passenger module and to know where the application is; 6) reload apache. Done.

I then benchmarked the slowest page of our app using the concurrency level of 50 and got a stable 60 reqs/sec. Memory usage was half of what Mongrels would use, and we’re not even running Enterprise Ruby.

A win.

Re: Phusion Passenger 2.0.5 now compatible with Edge Rails

mislav — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:01:00 -0000

We wanted to see how much better Passenger performs than our mongrels behind nginx, so I switched over our staging environment to it:

1) god stop mongrels; 2) stop nginx; 3) install apache2; 4) install passenger gem; 5) configure apache to load passenger module and to know where the application is; 6) reload apache. Done.

A win.

Re: Hosting Ruby on Rails with Passenger

mislav — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:12:00 -0000

I wrote an almost automated script that sets up Apache2 with Passenger and REE on Ubuntu: http://gist.github.com/3291... me a lot of time.

@Andy: Passenger instances happen to run in an environment that can be different than the one in your console. That probably screws up your GEM_HOME.

Re: Hosting Ruby on Rails with Passenger

mislav — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:12:00 -0000

I wrote an almost automated script that sets up Apache2 with Passenger and REE on Ubuntu: http://gist.github.com/3291... me a lot of time.

@Andy: Passenger instances happen to run in an environment that can be different than the one in your console. That probably screws up your GEM_HOME.

Re: Cucumber steps for testing page URLs and redirects

mislav — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -0000

We use http://gist.github.com/76330

Is testing redirects really necessary? Seems to me like something that belongs to functional tests, not acceptance. You should be able to change a redirect without any impact to the user.

Re: Prototype 1.6.1 RC2: IE8 compatibility, Element storage, and bug fixes

mislav — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:05:00 -0000

Element storage and mouseenter/leave — simply wow! Great to see it got in at last

Re: 6 Steps To Refactoring Rails (for Mere Mortals)

mislav — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:45 -0000

Step 7: merge yourself with another master developer to form a superpowered human being named Carlhuda and leave a fire trail on your keyboard while hacking

Re: Wonderland — Semantic List Markup with will_paginate

mislav — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:27:20 -0000

You're not the first or the last to create this sort of patch or renderer. I was probably the first to consider this more than a year ago when I was first rewriting will_paginate published by PJ Hyett. In the end I didn't make it because of several reasons: 1) when the pagination is unstyled it spans vertically, which is pretty ugly; 2) screen readers for blind might pay too much attention to the list thinking it's content; 3) the ellipsis ("...") marked up as a list item is totally unsemantic, but there's no other option.

If you care about semantics that much, you should have used an OL instead of UL.

Re: Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels

mislav — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:27:17 -0000

I'd vote the Google way: "remember me" unchecked by default, but there's a cookie that remembers the checked state long after the "remember" cookie has expired. That way you only have to choose "remember me" setting once per computer.