June 11th, 2007
all your rails app definitely should use plugin exception notifier. its a very nice plugin to let you know when ever your rails app gets bombed. right now, i have it set up to send an email to my gmail account, which my samsung blackjack downloads every hour. so now i can really know when something goes bad within an hrs time.
another cool plugin i found was the lightbox helper posted over on agilewebdevelopment.com. Basically it makes using the lightbox functionality real simple to use in your views. i highly recommend it.
next plugin i found that is nice is busy ajax. this plugin puts the typical busy firefox spinner thingy next to your cursur when any ajax requests are being proformed.
May 27th, 2007
just about completed my goal of launching 3 ‘practice’ sites.
if anyone is interested i created a craigslist classifieds style site, a image hosting service, and a note taking tool using heavily on ajax.
more to come…..
also, greetings to all the overseas folks that are visiting my site!
May 27th, 2007
over the weekend i developed a small web application for image hosting. i was surprised to see how much i accomplished in 1 day. but before i get to that, i have to write some notes about some things that i learned so i wont forget.
1. when copying over a plugin directory, double check that the files are in there!
2. act_as_authenticated has files in the lib folder!
3. use http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/01/13/growing-up-your-acts_as_taggable for taggable work. acts_as_polymorphs kicks major butt and thanks to the author of the plugin! you can use the cloud feature found on the acts_as_taggable wiki, but just replace the popularity field in the find_popular function with count.
4. write down all the passwords to all the domain names you use!
5. when using the directions from the blog above for taggable functionality, be sure to require the tag extension.rb file in the environments.rb!
6. increment and save a field just by using variable.increment! :columntoupdate
7. keep your layouts, partials, and templates in good form
8. be consistent with your function names, and file names!
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May 14th, 2007
thoughts about somethings i am currently learning.
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