Merb was originally created by Ezra Zygmuntowicz to avoid some Rails upload issues.
This is one of the things that Merb was written for. Rails doesn‘t allow multiple concurrent file uploads at once without blocking an entire rails backend for each file upload. Merb allows multiple file uploads at once.
I’ve built ‘multiple’ file uploaders for Rails [...]
Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above [...]
This might be obsolete when Apple releases Leopard and it’s desktop stacks, but Overflow is a great utility app for organizing your shise. Overflow let’s you group applications, folders and files into categories that you can quickly access by hitting ‘F1′. Below is my ‘Dev’ category, I also make a category for all my current [...]
I just registered for the LA stop of the Adobe AIR Bus Tour. It’ll be cool to meet some other Flex/AIR developers in SoCal.
About twice a year I need to completely remove a project from svn, I can never find/remember the snippet so I’m posting it on the internets.
# to remove svn from an existing app
find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
SWFObject (formally know as FlashObject) is a javascript file that unobtrusively embeds flash in a web page. It works by replacing a holder div with Flash content, if the end user doesn’t have Flash or the targeted Flash player SWFObject will ‘fail’ silently and keep the original div. Here’s a Rails helper that let’s you [...]
Ted on Flex is previewing enhancements in the next version of Flex. First up is a look at better tools for designing/laying out your Flex app. I currently end up with a chain of HBox VBox components embedded together to get my layout ‘just’ right so the new advanced constraints sound great:
Advanced Constraints:
There are 2 [...]