Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll never know and Boing Boing sure as hell isn’t going to help me out.
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Intridea Blog: REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK
Pretty much everyone who claims to have a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is the Sun Cloud API which actually defines a number of custom media types for resources and is discoverable based on a single known end-point. Everyone ...
Postgres: DISTINCT ON lets you select only one record per ordered attribute(s) for each group
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To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with the
DISTINCTstatement. - To retrieve the group wise maximum of certain columns: You can keep only one record fo...
The Ruby Object Model
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing for developers who have been programming in more static languages, such as Java or C#. This card should help understanding t...
ongoing by Tim Bray · The Web’s the Place
They can ship their own product and give it away till you go bust, then start charging for it; and use secret APIs you can’t see; and they can break the published APIs you use. All of these things have historically been done by platform vendors.
The JavaScript Object Model: Prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...
Webrat doesn't follow redirect because it considers the url external
Rails doesn't know which host it is running on. For generating links, it strips the hostname off the request URL, which can lead to errors when you have absolute URLs in your Cucumber tests.
If you really need to use absolute URLs somewhere, say ...
Building web applications: Beyond the happy path
When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list.
Different screen sizes and browsers
Desktops, tablets and mobile devices have all different screen resolutions. Does your design wor...
Don't use PDFKit v0.5.4 – it breaks on dead urls
When I upgraded from 0.5.4 PDFKit deadlocked or crashed when an ApplicationController::RouteError occured. If this error happens only because of a broken image link you probably still wan't the page to render and get a PDF with a "missing image pl...
Rails: Example on how to extract domain independent code from the `app/models` folder to the `lib/` folder
This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting domain independent code from the app/models folder to the lib/ folder. The approach is applicable to arbitrary scenarios...
Stop animations and network polling when the document tab isn't visible
Is your application doing something expensive every few seconds? Maybe an animated slider that rotates images? Maybe you are updating data over the network every five minutes?
It's a good idea to pause this if the your document tab is not eve...