The days of forcing time-zone support into your Rails apps with not one, but two plugins are over. It would appear that Rails now has its own way of dealing with timezones via a custom implementation (though it’s still based on the tzinfo gem).
Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you.
Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
Meteora is set of cross-browser Widgets and Controls that allows you to quickly write rich and customizable web applications without having to waste time reading full pages of documentation or programming excessive javascript that is painful to debug.
MooCrop is an Image Cropping utility using the amazingly powerful mootools javascript framework. Alone it serves no practical purpose but used in conjuction with a server side script becomes a powerful image manipulation tool.
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines:
Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like.
mongrel_proctitle, a clever little plugin developed by Alexander Staubo. Drop it into your Rails plugin directory, restart your Mongrels, issue a ‘ps aux’, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see exactly what each of your Mongrels is doing.
his is a simple module which changes Mongrel’s process title to reflect what it’s currently doing. You can then determine a given Mongrel server’s status using ps.
The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations
uOGT allows users to translate selections of text by including them in a SPAN tag and with class ‘t’. Of course, like most of Google’s web APIs, this one requires you to include a JavaScript file to the pages that you want to translate as well
Google AJAX Translation plugin enables Google AJAX Language API on your blog, so your blog readers can easily translate your blog comments into other languages.
It provides a quick, simple and light way to add internationalization feature onto your blog.
Inspired by many other lightbox-like tools, now made kinda different image zooming script for those who want something fresh. It`s powered by great javascript library - jQuery, tested with IE6, IE7, Firefox
Today I want a RSS button for my blog. I found many Image RSS Icons and Photoshop tutorials. Here are the best and downloadable feed icons. And I will share to you how to make a RSS button with HTML/CSS.
Overrides some basic methods for the current model so that calling destroy sets a ‘deleted_at’ field to the current timestamp. ActiveRecord is required.
GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.
RSpactor is a little command line tool to automatically run your changed specs (much like autotest). As you may expect, it concentrates on the use of RSpec.
As of mid-2005, the two most likely candidates will be [WWW]RSS 2.0 and [WWW]Atom 1.0. The purpose of this page is to summarize, as clearly and simply as possible, the differences between the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 syndication languages.
XFN puts a human face on linking. As more people have come online and begun to form social networks, services such as Technorati and Feedster have arisen in an attempt to show how the various nodes are connected.
Solex is a Web application testing tool built as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. It provides functions to record a client session, adjust it according to various parameters and replay it later typically in order to ensure non regression of the behaviour.
Based on the javascript version of Speech Bubbles at willmayo.com this is a light weight CSS only version. Whilst it does not have the flexiblity of the javascript it does still work with javascript off.
Google4R is a collection of Ruby libraries that allow to access Google’s public web service APIs. Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/google4r
ProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype and Scriptaculous to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
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