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 [...]

20070219 BarCampLondon2 :after

If you read my Thurday’s post, I was terribly undecided about what to talk about (doesn’t sound too good, heh!), but after forcing myself to revisit all the special and interesting issues or topics I have been involved in lately, I finally decided that I really needed to talk about communicating and more specially, making [...]

20040227 to prototype or not to prototype, that is the question

It looked as a simple task: make a simple html prototype for a potential client. It then ended up like a horrible nightmare of html delicatessen: ooooh we must convert this png into gif because it would be smaller… why don’t we make the border of the tables fancier? … oh let’s put px instead [...]