Rails – speaking to rest as a mock webservice

27Feb09

Finally understood the distinctions between webservices and rest. Now I don’t mean the theory aspects Roy Fieldings paper adequately explains the concepts and frankly helps a great deal to try to introduce technology which is along the lines of ‘less is more’.

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Tags: rails, rest

Blog posting from Google Docs

20Feb09

Blog posting from Google Docs First attempt

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HTML meta data – MSThemeCompatible

07Feb09

Be aware this <META HTTP-EQUIV=”MSThemeCompatible” CONTENT=”no”> which is there to disable the Windows XP teletubby theme causes Safari and Firefox to completely remove scrollbars. The issue is tracked in a Firefox bug report.

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Localising a rails app – in 20 mins

07Feb09

I had an existing rails app which has nearly completed and during its development its been upgraded from 1.2 all the way up to 2.2.2. Anyway I sat down with the latest updates and figured that acts_as_paranoid and will_paginate needed to be altered but beyond that it seems it just worked. Suffice to say I’d [...]

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Tags: languages, localise, rails