ClassAnim & HoverHijax: Keeping Presentation out of Your JavaScript
Heads up! This was written in 2007 and many things have changed since then. Nowadays, CSS transitions are widely supported by browsers and a better approach. Ever since the dawn of CSS and compliant...
View ArticleSemantic Tab Box v2.0
Heads up! This was written in 2007 and many things have changed since then. This is probably not the most modern approach. Last year I came up with the original semantic tab box, now I’m improving it....
View ArticleRuby on Rails: Hash#Except and Converting Arrays to Args
Tonight I was working on rewriting the event creation flow for MixerMixer, the social event community I’ve been building, and couldn’t figure out why the Hash#except method wasn’t working. My goal was...
View ArticleRunning IE on your Mac, for free via modern.ie
Several years ago I figured out how to convert the Virtual PC images windows used to provide for Windows testing to VirtualBox format, that would run on the Mac. It was a long process but was the only...
View ArticleGood UX for Placeholders as Field Labels (i.e. Float Labels)
Checkout my follow-up CSS only solution UPDATE: My floating labels were featured on CSS Tricks! I know that it is well understood that using placeholder labels are bad practice. However, they continue...
View ArticleSerializing Embedded Relationships with Ember Data 1.0.0 beta
In the latest Ember Data (currently 1.0.0-beta.4) saving or serializing embedded records doesn’t work the way some of us wish. By default it will serialize the parent record and include a list of IDs...
View ArticleLoading JSON with embedded records into Ember Data 1.0.0 beta
This is a follow-up to my last post that showed how to export an ember data object with embedded relationships into one nested JSON structure. This time we’ll take the same JSON and load it back into...
View ArticleCSS Only Placeholders Field Labels (i.e. Float Labels)
In a previous post I showed how I made the float labels for Nest’s store, which can make forms with placeholder labels more user friendly. One of the glaring problems with the solution was that it...
View ArticleEmber: Getting the index in #each loops
Unfortunately Ember’s version of handlebars does not support the {{@index}} value in a loop. If you do a google search you’ll find many people asking how to get this, without much help. The most...
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