This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I decided to use my hour to learn a bit more about Knockout.js. Knockout is described as a Model-View-View Model library. MVVM Coming from …
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Learning CoffeeScript (with a dash of Node.js)
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Today I decided to start my tech learning with CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript is “a little language that compiles into JavaScript” and has been really popular over the …
Weekly Tech Learning
Most web developers know that the tech industry moves at an accelerated pace, with hundreds (thousands?) of new technologies to try out that all promise to make our jobs [easier|faster|more efficient|stronger|more shiny]. The problem is time. How do you know which technology is worth your time to learn? Which ones will actually deliver and make …
Redmine Theme – Basic Themes – Images and JavaScript
When I last wrote about Redmine themes I showed how to customize the basic styles by overriding the CSS. Basic themes also support a few other features in addition to CSS. Images Most themes will use images as part of the design. This is pretty easy to do because the entire theme is located in …
MealEtte Tool Review – 2009 Rails Rumble
This past weekend I participated in the 2009 Rails Rumble where I built MealEtte (a combination of Meal and Roulette). The purpose of MealEtte is: Ever wasted more than 5 minutes figuring out what to eat for dinner tonight? MealEtte is for you. (If you haven’t wasted any time, please let me in on your …