Monthly Archives: January 2007

Trim the fat with HAML

January 22, 2007 – 9:02 am

The announcement of Rails 1.2 wasn’t the only interesting post on weblog.rubyonrails.org, I also found out about HAML a templating system for Rails that cleans up your code and banishes those ugly ASP type tags.
If you look at the two partials of a form you’ll see that you not only save a few lines of [...]

By Alastair | Posted in Ruby on Rails | Comments (1)

Rails 1.2 is go!

January 19, 2007 – 6:29 pm

I’ve been building a couple of sites on ‘edge’ rails and just in time the official 1.2 release is released.

By Alastair | Posted in Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Scripting animation in ActionScript

January 12, 2007 – 10:45 am

Scripting animation has many benfits including improved performance, more control, and most importantly it saves time. There’s a great animation library called Fuse which let’s you animate everything from a MovieClip’s position to the anmount of blur. While a complete animation library it’s also pretty complicated with pages and pages of documentation and I – [...]

By Alastair | Posted in ActionScript, Flash | Comments (3)