Javascript yeilding and graceful degration
I’ve been watching a few YUI Theatre and Joseph Smarr’s talk about AJAX and Plaxo.
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Working with Blueprint: A CSS Framework
So I decided to change my blogging software, from no software (Blogger) to SimpleLog. I setup everything up in my dev environment and it was by far the easiest setup I have seen so far. Took about 10 minutes including setting up the virtual hosts. While getting super interested in my blog again I was [...]
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Understanding Rails Partials
Partial’s are great, i really wish there was something as straight forward in Smarty. With Smarty it would require a loop and an include, but partials roll that all into one. It great when you are displaying a list of items, especially if that list can be used in multiple pages in many contexts. With [...]
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Multiplication
The MultiForm() function is here. It allows an entire form or just one form field to be displayed with the [] brackets on the end of the input name. This allows the form to have multiple copies of the same fields in the same form without anything getting overwritten or any additional setup. Here is [...]
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A More Centered API
Its been a while but we have been working hard on an API that is going to withstand the test of time. This will make Simpl more expendable and not require as many application code level changes in the future. These function have been added to the Form() Class: SetDisplay($fields) -> BooleanSetHidden($fields) -> BooleanSetOmit($fields) -> [...]
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