This is kind of last minute, but this week we’ve been lucky to have Michael Feathers (the author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code) at Carfax for training, and he’s agreed to give a talk on Thursday night (April 30th) on Hybrid Object Oriented / Functional Programming. The talk will be hosted at Carfax at [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Harness Twitter on the Client Side With jquery-twitter
April 14th, 2009
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Recently I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with twitter’s searching api for an app I’ve been working on, and today I’m proud to announce that the jquery plugin I’ve written for it is now available on github as jquery-twitter for download. Let me be frank, this isn’t something fancy like monitter or other [...]
jquery-text-tools: Link urls with jQuery
April 12th, 2009
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Here’s a little something I threw together today that is simple, yet a bit useful too. I’ve been working on an application that consumes text from a JSON service on the client side and populates the page with the results, in real time. Some of the snippets of text have links in them, so I [...]
Pimp My GEdit
April 12th, 2009
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I’ve been doing a lot of ruby on rails work lately, and in absence of TextMate on my linux laptop I was searching for something good to use. Eclipse with RadRails is okay, but sometimes it can be a heavy weight (and random long startup times and random “initializing java tooling” bogs me down). So [...]
