Monthly Archives: January 2007

Trim the fat with HAML

By Alastair | January 22, 2007

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 [...]

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Rails 1.2 is go!

By Alastair | January 19, 2007

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

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Scripting animation in ActionScript

By Alastair | January 12, 2007

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 – [...]

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