Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
In order for someone to give The Project (Min Packning) a try it was required to register an account and provide a valid e-mail address. This is an obstacle, so I wanted to add a way for people to try the service without registering. It was actually very easy. I ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I released the first incarnation of The Project yesterday; please visit MinPackning.se! Unfortunately it's not so useful if you can't read Swedish.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Probably years after everyone else, I've made my first AJAX-enabled web page today. As I do this from within Ruby on Rails, it was virtually painless to remove or replace a piece of HTML.
My next AJAX step was to get in_place_editing working. The first problem was the InvalidAuthenticityToken and the ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
The Project will allow users to create and edit something I call "Things" in this article. One feature that is quite high on the priority list is to be able to print Things. I found the article “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails but I wanted a separate page ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I found a suitable initial web design for The Project at Open Source Web Design. That's a really great site!
Now I'm learning about layouts in Ruby on Rails. As suggested in the Midnight Oil blog (Beds are burning?) article SimpleSidebar - If you have sidebars, you need this plugin ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Yesterday and today I took some time to work on The Project. (Tomorrow I'm back at work, so much for a holiday project.) I tossed aside requirements on a strictly Swedish interface, so the controller names are in English and I don't use Ola Bini's Swedish Rails yet. Honestly I ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The day before yesterday I registered a domain name for a new project and yesterday (while recovering from a really upset stomach) I wrote three A5 pages with a database model, sketchy requirements and possible features. All from very basic ones ("It shall be possible to register a new user ...
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