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by rufo 18y ago
That's not true though... jQuery, without any plugins, supports basic animation out-of-the-box (enough for the applications that I have been writing lately). Prototype requires scriptaculous on top of that if you want to write effects, whic
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by rufo 18y ago
Yes... there's nothing really wrong with Prototype; it's just that jQuery feels far leaner (both in terms of API and in codesize) while doing most of what I typically need out of Prototype/Scriptaculous. I'd say either of them would be fine
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by rufo 18y ago
I feel embarrassed to say that I didn't actually realize that labels automatically associated with form elements such that you could click on them... I usually used labels anyway, but mainly because they were semantically correct.
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by rufo 18y ago
I went on a bit of a Keyboard Quest earlier this year... 1) Started with a Microsoft Natural USB keyboard - one of the split ones. Good, but not great keyfeel, and lots of typing on my MBP 17" got me used to typing on a standard keyboard ag
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by rufo 18y ago
I've tried MacPorts, and inevitably when I update the packages I wind up creating some kind of dependency issue that causes me to just give up, scrap the /opt folder and start over again. I've just started building things from source recent
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by rufo 18y ago
There was actually just a bunch of discussion about BrainTree on one of the mailing lists I read: http://groups.google.com/group/rails-business/browse_thread/...
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by rufo 18y ago
Also to note: no additional languages will be supported. $@*!. Well, looks like Heroku will hang around for a while...
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by rufo 18y ago
One other thing I forgot to mention: Apple refurb gear carries the same 1-year warranty that new Apple gear does, and you still have the ability to buy AppleCare (extended warranty) on it. Generally, you're not giving up a whole lot going r
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by rufo 18y ago
Thank god/FSM.
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by rufo 18y ago
I wouldn't knock the MacBook too much. Under $1000 if you check Apple's refurb section (store.apple.com, scroll down and look in the left sidebar), and you can run Windows or Linux if you wind up hating Apple gear. Buy the cheap model and s
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by rufo 18y ago
I use Capistrano and am quite happy with it, but even if you don't go that way, seriously look into some kind of deployment management software. Versioned deployments, simple and automatic rollbacks if something fails, and the ability to ea
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by rufo 18y ago
Kind of a moot point now, but I always wonder if Pownce would have gained much more traction had it launched with a full API instead of/in addition to a mediocre AIR client.
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by rufo 18y ago
Absolutely. I've (unfortunately) done some work on a vertical market app for homebuilders that is mostly written in Excel. If you're using the Office COM API, there is some syntactical sugar that VB.NET handles for you that makes it far eas
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by rufo 18y ago
Does it matter whether or not global warming is man-made? In case anyone has forgotten, there are plenty of other benefits we get along with the switch to cleaner sources of energy.
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by rufo 18y ago
Devil's advocate: What's wrong with them not wanting to? Assuming there is no discrimination or other judgement going on in the workplace causing them to choose a different career, and women simply choose not to enter IT/engineering fields,
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by rufo 18y ago
Right now I'd be far more inclined to still use SitePoint's, as their reference appears to be much more through, including extensive commentary on cross-browser differences. See http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/background http://code.g
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by rufo 18y ago
I think it's just the honeymoon is over and people are looking at it a bit more objectively then a year ago when all the Web 2.0 fashionistas were gobsmacked over it. Don't get me wrong, I like Rails and it's a great framework as long as yo
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by rufo 18y ago
What happens if the backup service goes down? Does the client have a way to recover backups from S3 directly (or from the data files I've pulled down from S3)?
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by rufo 18y ago
Amusingly awesome, but somehow I doubt they'll let you get a license plate with punctuation in it. Ah, well. A man can dream.
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by rufo 18y ago
It seems problematic to charge for the basic functionality of something so simple; there are plenty of Twitter competitors that offer what Twitter does and more, still for free. ( cough pownce ahem ) They could charge for expanded functiona
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by rufo 18y ago
So how does Twitter start earning some of this money back? Ads are the obvious answer, but is that enough considering their massive SMS/API-only usage that wouldn't see ads? Some kind of Pro version? (I suppose it could remove the API restr
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by rufo 19y ago
I'm unsure how this is different than any other business, whether online or brick-and-mortar. He says right in the presentation: this is not guaranteed to work. You still have an uphill battle; the general wisdom is that three out of every
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by rufo 19y ago
I think they're using the EFI V8 emulator, which runs stock Apple kernels with zero modifications, and allows you to use Software Update without any mucking about before or afterwards. You still need kernel extensions for hardware OS X won'
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by rufo 19y ago
What almost concerns me more is the fact that GrandCentral has barely been updated since Google acquired them. I took it as a vote of confidence that they'd be around for a while when Google bought them, but I've been starting to wonder lat