Quick and Dirty Guide to your 1st Rails app - Part #1
For all of you who want to take a peek at creating a Ruby on Rails application and need a quick start, this post is designed to aid you in getting to know RoR. I will post follow-ups to this to make this first application better and better and to incorporate more complex functionality in a step-by-step manner. Ok, so you want [...]
Read MoreActiveScaffold: How to get started
When I took a first peek at ActiveScaffold, I had no idea into how much trouble I'd run before creating beautiful AND working backends for my applications. I had LOTS of research to do to get around some rather nasty issues and I want to provide you with some info on how to get stuff done. Some prerequisites: I use Rails 2.3.4 [...]
Read MoreGimpShop & Photoshop Shortcut File
For all of you who need/want to do graphics work on Linux, the Gimp is praised as an alternative to Photoshop. Well, I tend to use CS4 for the more complex work since Gimp simply isn’t that powerful and comfortable… wait. There’s GimpShop!
What’s that?
GimpShop (http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294) is a hack for Gimp to change the menu structure [...]
Doing UPDATE with Doctrine and a String as Parameter
Today I had to extend a few Doctrine queries and one of these modifications consisted of changing the parameter of an UPDATE query from integer to string – and whoops! It didn’t work anymore…
When using $query->getSql(); I noticed that it wanted to do something like this:
UPDATE data SET date = 2009-12-14 WHERE …
and of course [...]
IRC server & channels added!
Since the start of this week, there is an own IRC server running at irc.droom.at (webchat or connect directly with your favourite IRC client) which offers support for:
Rails
jQuery
symfony
HAML / SASS
and sports some fun channels. Check it out and populate the server
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