Chain Links #013
Posted: August 4th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, jquery, rails, ruby | Comments OffToddler’s brain decides that 4:30am is a good time to get up for the day. My brain, in retrospect, does not concur.
- Ruby I don’t like #1 – Explicit ‘return’
Interesting discussion going on in the comments section. Personally, I don’t like unnecessary explicit returns scattered throughout a method, but I do like to use guard clauses over multi-conditionals. - AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin
Allows mouseover zooming of text, etc. - Programmatically Creating Website Thumbnails : Accidental Technologist
I’ve used websnapr before with mixed results. Haven’t investigated any of the others mentioned. - Bowline – A Ruby GUI framework
Cross-platform desktop development framework that sits on top of Titanium/Webkit. Early stage, but interesting. - Worst case scenario
Adam Milligan goes on the offensive to lobby for his Rails patch to fix a problem with functional tests possibly masking problems with incorrect parameter types.
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