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REST in Place
In Ajax vs. REST I wrote about my ideas for a RESTful inplace editor. Well, after a day playing around with jQuery, I present REST in Place
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Avi Bryant on Smalltalk
What clicked about Smalltalk was a few things: one was simply the maturity, both of the community and of the technology. Smalltalk implementations have been refined over the last 25 years, and they’ve...
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One of those nights
Last night Zed Shaws Rails is a Ghetto Shitstorm was brought to my attention. Zeds rant provides enough meat for a post of its own but it's not what I want to write about today. Following some comments...
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Language design philosophy: more than one way?
Ola Bini manages to express my feelings about the difference between Ruby and Python: So what's the point? Well, the point is Ruby. In fact, Ruby has almost all of the flexibility of Perl to do things...
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Rails: Determine the association collection size through joins
Rails association collections know two ways to determine their size: Through a dumb count as soon as you query the collection for its size. This doesn't require any additional work but puts quite a...
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REST in Place now Rails 2.0 compatible
Ever since Rails 2.0 came out, my REST in Place Plugins stopped working because of the request forgery protecting introduced into ActiveController. The AJAX request didn't submit the rails authenticity...
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Getting started with Ruby on Rails
Today Smashing Magazine published an article I wrote last week about Ruby on Rails. Instead of just doing another tutorial, I gave a rough overview of how Rails works, together with a lot of praise of...
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Ruby on Rails Extremcrashkurs
(Sorry, content in german only for this post) Ende 2007 habe ich bei 9elements einen Crashkurs zu Ruby on Rails gegeben. Da mich inzwischen schon mehrere Leute gefragt haben ob ich die Folien nicht mal...
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REST in Place: Major update ahead
This week, I'll roll out a major update to REST in Place. I have completely restructured the code and made the Plugin much more object-oriented, modular and maintainable. Existing installations should...
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REST in Place 2.0
Two weeks ago I began rewriting REST in Place as a gemplugin for the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline. I just pushed the final version 2.0 to github and rubygems.org and want to give some hints on the new...
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