Monthly Archives: February 2007

Yahoo! Pipes : Rewire the web

Posted on February 16, 2007 by neyric

Yahoo! Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. It is to web services, what the unix pipe ( the ‘|’ character) is to the command line. With its nice visual editor, you can manipulate very easily multiple feeds, send … Continue reading →

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has_and_belongs_to_many or has_many :through?

Posted on February 10, 2007 by neyric

As you may (or may not) know, there are two ways to build a many-to-many (or N-N) relationship with Rails. The first way uses has_and_belongs_to_many in both models. You’ll have to create a join table that has no corresponding model … Continue reading →

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dojo.storage brings new capabilities to web services

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

Dojo toolkit, is well known in the Ajax community to provide numerous widgets to web developper. Since version 0.4.1, it provides a way to store data on the client side trough dojo.storage. It can use multiple ways to store those … Continue reading →

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AFLAX: The AJAX Library for the Adobe Flash Platform

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

The version 1.0 of AFLAX has been released : “Developed by Paul Colton, the AFLAX technology is available as a library that enables developers to use JavaScript to fully utilize all of the features of Adobe’s Flash runtime — including … Continue reading →

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Javascript Coding rules

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

Here are some rules I constrain myself to, and that can be useful for others : Use good code conventions Check your code: JSLint (javascript tools bundle for textmate make it automatic) Minification of your code: JSMin GZIP the code, … Continue reading →

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Essential things to know about Javascript

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

Douglas Crockford has written some essential articles about javascript: Here is a few of them: Javascript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language A survey of the Javascript programming Language Private Members in Javascript Prototypal Inheritance in Javascript Classical Inheritance in … Continue reading →

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Reusable code

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

Javascript prototype inheritance allows a lot of code re-use. RE-USE I said ! So, why are you still coding ?!? Go to http://www.brainjacked.com/, and find the piece of code you’re missing ! They use Yahoo! Tech groups to publish news, … Continue reading →

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Unit tests in Javascript

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

If you’re used to unit testing ( using JUnit in java, Test::Unit in Rails, etc… ), you might like to have a look at http://www.jsunit.net/ “It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for … Continue reading →

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Debugging Javascript with Firebug 1.0

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

The new version of Firebug is finally released !!! This is an awesome tool to debug and profile javascript. It has a lot of new features compare to the previous releases. Here is a great video of Joe Hewitt (Firebug’s … Continue reading →

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Advanced Javascript Video

Posted on February 1, 2007 by neyric

Douglas Crockford from Yahoo! made a few presentations about the Javascript Language. They are just awesome and I don’t know how I was coding in Javascript before viewing them. You can see them thanks to Yahoo! Videos, here are the … Continue reading →

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