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Re: Tiny art gallery turns into home via stealth kitchen/bedroom

waltd — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:13:46 -0000

What city is this located in?

Re: As much as I appreciate Away luggage supporting... | Coyote Tracks

waltd — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:25:32 -0000

True, but would you plug a USB cord into something you couldn't see the other side of, to be sure it was only providing power, and not data?

Re: Working with dates on Ruby on Rails

waltd — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:16:13 -0000

The server is in UTC (I'm not an animal) and the application is set to 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'. I was guessing that Whenever would scope any of its configurations to the UTC zone, since that's most likely for servers. But I suppose it may also have left that as an exercise for the student...

Re: Working with dates on Ruby on Rails

waltd — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:24:49 -0000

One thing that mystifies me — I use Whenever to configure cron on one of my sites, and that site is set to US/Eastern time so the timestamps on messages are correct for the users. But Whenever is picking up that offset, and all of my jobs run 4 or 5 hours off of when I *mean* for them to. Is there a way to fix this?

Re: Prototype Blog: Prototype 1.7.3

waltd — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:58:33 -0000

Wonderful news! Great work!

Re: Organizing Javascript in Rails Application with Turbolinks | Brandon Hilkert

waltd — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:25:50 -0000

Great detective work. See you next Tuesday?

Re: Organizing Javascript in Rails Application with Turbolinks | Brandon Hilkert

waltd — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:20:14 -0000

> Note: the page:change transition is also triggered on the well known document ready event, so there’s no need to add any special handling for first page load.

I did not know this! Wow, I have been wasting a lot of lines of JavaScript, one at a time! Where did you find this documented?

Re: 3 ways to monkey-patch without making a mess - Weissblog

waltd — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:21:26 -0000

Is there a quick way to figure out where such a thing should go? Any list of the existing extensions that would make it easier to figure out which part of ActiveSupport already touches a core element?

Re: Multiple file upload with Rails 3.2, paperclip, html5 and no javascript

waltd — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:51:54 -0000

Are you using the same form for new and edit? I think this exact form would only work on new. You'd need to have a different form on edit that could present a separate form element for each of the uploaded files, so you could update each one individually.

Re: The Elements of Style in Ruby #3: Make sure something is an array - (think)

waltd — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:10:02 -0000

Wow. That's really quite cool. I have often used (array) $foo in PHP (casting whatever $foo is to an array) and this appears to behave the same way. But I imagine that under the hood, the coercion is far more elegant.

Re: Caleb Grove | A Web Designer: Responsive Imagery

waltd — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:28:04 -0000

Have you read Retinafy Me by Thomas Fuchs? http://retinafy.me

Re: Learning while conducting the TriggerApp Upgrade | NetEngine

waltd — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:08:19 -0000

Sounds about right

Re: Ignore That Report About Apple Blocking the Google Maps App

waltd — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:01:21 -0000

The previous Maps app used data from Google, but was written by Apple.

Re: http://tracks.ranea.org/post/29561736816

waltd — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:19:42 -0000

Dean Allen just wrote to all the original TD "for life" customers, explaining his plans to re-open TextDrive in modern cloud "hardware", and honor the lifetime agreement in full. Totally a stand-up guy.

Re: RAL naar Pantone® solid coated en Pantone® Goe™ coated conversie

waltd — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:44:47 -0000

Looks good! Glad you got your layout sorted.

Re: Sign In or Sign Up | Rails Reserved Words

waltd — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:15:36 -0000

This actually seems to be working in Rails 3, I just did a project with an Image class last year.

Re: Five Things We Want From the New iPad, and Why

waltd — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:57:02 -0000

FireWire was started in 1986. USB in 1994. Intel tried to position USB (a technically inferior standard) as a replacement for FireWire. Intel likes USB because it's cheap, and requires a fast processor for decent performance, since all traffic on that bus has to pass through the main processor. FireWire, in contrast, mediates its own traffic outside of the processor, which means that chattiness on the line will not have to wait on the processor yielding time to the bus. I use FireWire extensively for audio recording, where it allows me to send audio and data over the same bus, with timecode, without dropping a sample.

Re: http://trevmex.com/post/1530497925

waltd — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:27:02 -0000

What was that t-shirt service for twitter handles? That looked amazing, but I didn't catch the URL.

Re: Notes From October Philly.rb

waltd — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:07:04 -0000

text = text.gsub(/cassets/,'cassettes')

Your notes are so much better than mine, so I don't know why I'm even complaining. Thanks for writing this up!

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:50:25 -0000

I just saw that, and it looks like a bad setting in Disqus. I'm working to fix it now.

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:04:38 -0000

Oh, and the close "button" is "click anywhere else on the page"...

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:24:40 -0000

Which words did you have selected?

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:24:03 -0000

I initially had that, but if you select more than one word, the dictionary returns "no results found" unless you happen to select a compund proper noun, like Sierra Leone or similar. so I changed the logic to always go to Google proper if the selection was more than one word.

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:00:10 -0000

I factored out the JavaScript and added a few comments that might make this clearer.

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/lookup.js

To notice the act of highlighting a bit of text on the page, I observe the mouseup event, then check to see if there is a current text selection on the page. If there is, I wrap the selection in a span, and then insert a (?) button in that span. Clicking the question mark button just sends the text content of the span to whichever search engine makes the most sense, and displays that result in an iframe.

Re: DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

waltd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:16:01 -0000

It's using Prototype, naturally, but the real magic is in getting the current text selection, if any, and wrapping that with a span tag. For that, I'm using the designMode trick to turn the DIV into a WYSIWYG editor for a second, then wrapping the current selection with a span, then turning designMode back off again.