20100612 Using jQuery’s inline Datepicker within a form

When you use the inline version of jQuery UI’s Datepicker within a form, it doesn’t submit its value back to the server, since there’s no form element in it. And that’s a pity, because I find the inline mode way more comfortable for users: rather than having to click a button in order to open [...]

20081202 The BBC accidentally reveals some source code

… in this recipe (scroll to the bottom), and here’s the question: Which programming language are they using in that piece of code? My vote goes for Perl, because… It’s a well-known, public fact that they use Perl. In fact I have even heard someone complained the version of Perl they use is so old [...]

20070709 jQuery and Rails (and getting rid of prototype)

My first ajax-y attempts were done with prototype. It all seemed so natural and seamless: prototype came with rails and there were those nice javascript helpers like link_to_remote which generated the javascript code for calling prototype functions. Until you looked at the code! (and the weight of it). I’m not talking about the ruby code [...]

20070615 Extracting data with Hpricot

For those (few) of you which haven’t heard about it, Hpricot is a nice library for parsing HTML in ruby, created by the even nicer _whytheluckystiff, author of Poignant’s Guide to Ruby, Camping and other ruby gems (may you excuse the pun? it was impossible to avoid it). Since I saw one demonstration by Rob [...]