Setting up Node.js on Mac OS X Lion
Node.js is a great platform for building lightweight web applications. It is built on top of Google Chrome’s javascript runtime engine and uses an event driven,…
Simple crud with backbone.js
I wanted to share some code I wrote for getting started with backbone.js. I ended up building a simple CRUD app for a book inventory…
Light weight Ruby on Rails form helper
Using form helpers in web applications can often save you time. However, if the code base is quite large and you want complete control over your…
An introduction to Dialogic JQuery plugin
I just released an open source JQuery Lightbox called Dialogic. I actually extracted it from a Ruby on Rails project I’ve been working on recently. While…
Truncate your html with Nokogiri
I was looking for a good solution today to truncate my blog posts and came across a good post here. The basic idea was to…
Ruby Class Inheritance
I was reading a post on StackOverFlow today that highlighted a few good examples of ruby class inheritance. For me, I was always a little…