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Essential, Non-Essential, & 1.0

May 10, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

When you build an app always look out for the non-essential features. Make sure they don’t make it into your v1.0. They slow down your release, they dilute your focus, they require resources that pull you away from perfecting the core of your app, and they open the door to more bugs at launch.

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CSS, JavaScript, RegEx, Microjs, Comedy, & More

May 6, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

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respond_to with Conditionals in Rails

May 2, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

Accessing a controller asynchronously usually requires writing a respond_to block in the corresponding action but I recently had the need to return a specific value in the same action based on the query string parameters.

Criticism, Usability, Chaos, & More

April 29, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

Here are the goods from the past week:

Autocomplete in Rails 3 with jQuery & jQuery UI

April 28, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’m in the process of building a Rails application and needed to introduce some autocomplete functionality on a couple of text fields.

If you’re using Rails 3 and are not working with jQuery and the jQuery UI library, then there is a solid gem you may want to checkout; otherwise, here’s how you can setup autocomplete on a text field using Rails 3, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

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