Tom at the wishlisting.com blog has a comprehensive tutorial on setting up Ruby on Rails (with a load balancer and Rmagick) on a Media Temple (dv) server. He deserves praise for installing ImageMagick without a package manager, which can turn into a marathon event of yak-shaving.
Found a great set of tutorials for setting up a VPS. The tutorials focus on SliceHost but could be used on most VPS hosts that you build from scratch. The best part about the tutorials is that they don’t assume you’re a Linux geek, the first tutorial is an intro to the command line. The [...]
My Flex DateChooser to JavaScript example didn’t solve my date selection problem entirely as the project I’m working on requires a project to have a start week rather than a start day. The Flex DateChooser has built in selectable ranges so it’s pretty easy to set that up (right click on swf to view source).
The Flex Ajax Bridge, which for some reason you can only download with Flex Data Services (a 150mb+ download for a 16k file), isn’t the only way to send data from Flex to JavaScript there’s also the External Interface API. I’m working on a Rails project tracker application for a construction company and need to [...]
Just checked my sites stats and noticed that Google, the Ajax kings, have added some Flash spice to Google Analytics. Each technology handling what it does best, Flash as the presentation layer and Ajax as the data workhorse.
More on the analytics blog.
Flash/Flex has been blowing up lately, it’s faster growing book category for O’Reilly (via [...]
Matt MacLean (yet another Canadian ActionScripter, I swear ActionScript has to be in Canada’s top ten exports, right after soft-wood lumber) has created an ActionScript driver that connects to MySQL called asSQL (I wonder how you pronouce that [ass-kwuhl]?)
In Sept. 06 I set out to show someone that is was possible to connect [...]
Looks like we’re on the verge of a rapid increase in the speed your web app can be delivered.
Comcast CEO Shows Off Super Quick Modem
Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits [...]
Yahoo! has released a beta version of their web messenger. Mike Potter of Adobe gets in a shot at Silverlight over Yahoo!’s choice of Flex over WPF/Silverlight:
Of course, the application release comes hot on the heels of Michael Arrington saying that Silverlight from Microsoft was going to make “Flash/ Flex look like an absolute toy”. [...]
The majority of work I do is Flash/Flex and Rails so ActiveRecord, which is the M in the Rails MVC, is really the only part of Rails I use. I’ve always wished I could get ‘Rails Lite’ (In this case Camping doesn’t count) and just use ActiveRecord to pass data back and forth. My wish [...]