Rails, Firefox, Anime, Mac
Jeremy Kemper (aka bitsweat) committed a very useful tool into the Rails trunk not too long ago: a request profiler! It’s a human-friendly wrapper script around the ruby-prof library, a nice ruby code profiler, that lets you run multiple requests against a URI in your application and get a detailed code profile report in text [...]
Edge Rails now comes with a helper for creating form labels, so in your views, instead of doing this: <% form_for(:user, @user, :url => user_path(@user)) do |f| -%> <label for=”user_login”>Login</label> <%= f.text_field :login %> <end> where the <label> is given a for attribute of user_login (since the convention for form input ids is {MODEL_NAME}_{ATTRIBUTE_NAME}), you [...]
An old post I wrote on a spoof MMORPG named “Outside” was Dugg not too long ago and I was quite pleased to find that my server and the blogging software (WordPress) that I use was handling the load extremely well. Quite obviously I was getting more hits in a day than entire months: My [...]
About a month ago, I logged in to Google Reader to see a shocking thing – all my subscriptions were gone and I was subscribed to some feeds that I’ve never heard of. I would say I’m a pretty heavy Google Reader user, checking my several hundred subscriptions several times a day, so it was [...]
Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough, <div>s and CSS rules make up the style. [...]