Archive for October, 2008

RJS Demystified WIth Pretty Colors! Also 5 RoR Tips for Beginners…

Posted on 16 October 2008 View Comments

Amy Hoy over at Slash7 has put together an amazing cheatsheet for RJS (ruby javascript) documents. It is 3 pages long and uses lots and lots of bright colors to illustrate clearly how rjs is interpretated.
She asks viewers to resist the urge of putting it on Digg yet, as her server is not ready [...]

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Ruby On Rails: Meaningful (and beautiful) URLs

Posted on 15 October 2008 View Comments

This tutorial is going to take you through what it takes to make your URLs easy to remember and meaningful. Great examples of sites that implement this well are Flickr and Delicious. We are going to first take a look at the Routes framework in the Action Controller and see what options it gives us. [...]

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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

Posted on 10 October 2008 View Comments

NETTUTS just published a list of 20 extremely useful Ajax effects that they say are “the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know.”
Here’s the quick summary they provide:
There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that [...]

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