- Dmytro Shteflyuk’s Home » In-place file upload with Ruby on Rails
First of all, do you know, that form element has attribute target? If you specify it your form will be submitted into frame with name entered in target attribute. Of course, this frame can be iframe, and it can be hidden!
Interesting.
Pinstripe
Posted January 31, 2007 at 11:17 AM
I fixed a nasty quirk in the design that kept cropping up between the differences in IE and firefox. The pinstripe that runs from top to bottom now should be consistent across all browsers. I had to break down and use a 780x1 px background image image centered and repeated along the y axis. It's only 4Kb, so it's not that big of a deal, but I think it looks better over all.
Muzak to your ears
Posted January 31, 2007 at 01:42 AM
Design-by-committee ought to be banned from a creative-technical environment.
- Flying Meat: VoodooPad
VoodooPad is a garden for your thoughts. Plant ideas, images, lists and anything else you need to keep track of. VoodooPad grows with you, without getting in the way — no fences to box you in!
I love this genre of app.
- Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Microsoft green with Apple envy
I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and … my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was fucking amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.
Apparently, in 2004, Microsoft considered technologies like Spotlight, Dashboard, and Core Animation (old technologies by today's standard) to be clones/competitors to features not yet released in (and some totally scrapped from) Vista in 2007. Meanwhile, I still can't get Outlook to do a half-decent job of searching.
- How to disable Snap Previews
Deactivation requires the use of cookie technology. If you should delete your cookies, please note that Snap Preview Anywhere will be re-activated for all sites automatically.
There's got to be a better way. Otherwise, they provide a link to disable those annoying Snap previews that have me consciously positioning my mouse to the side of a page as I navigate to avoid them.
Playing with AdSense
Posted January 28, 2007 at 07:28 AM
As part of the re-design, I've added an extra section in the sidebar for advertising partners. Right now "partners" is Google AdSense. This is more a learning experiment more than anything, I don't expect to pull any revenue from this site, but as the site develops and the platform matures, it needs to be able to handle situations such as advertisements.
AdSense advertisements should appear in a 234x60 box underneath the "Advertisements" section. AdSense has provisions for specifying a url for alternate content in the event that AdSense has nothing to offer. Once I verify this is actually happening, then I will likely ad some code to hide the advertising section in the instances in which AdSense has nothing to show, or alternatively, some sort of rotating image of artistic merit (kind of like the way Gawker does it with Gawker Artists), so there isn't just an empty Advertisements section left hanging around.
Something more redesign
Posted January 28, 2007 at 02:34 AM
I went for what seems to me to be a simpler/easier-to-look-at-and-use design. I hope you like it!
- Coachella 2007
- Bjork, Sonic Youth, DJ Shadow, New Pornographers, Mike Relm, Manu Chao, Air, Explosions in the Sky, Ratatat, and more.
- Darwin Ports : Open Source Software for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- How could I have forgot about this?
Wherein the future lies
Posted January 23, 2007 at 03:16 AM
For xmas I received an Atmel Atmega16 microcontroller and a random assortment of supporting electronic components to complement the stepper motor collection I have amassed over the years. I'm looking forward to putting it/them to good use. I've registered the domains bitwallah.net and bitwala.net, which I intend to use to share the knowledge gained in my foray into microcontroller programming and various other programming related endeavors. I figure it will be a good opportunity to set up a wiki.
- Eyebeam reBlog: The Best Art of 2006
- Dallas local Paul Slocum makes the list!
- Apple - iPhone
- They pulled it off. I actually want this, it seems to promise the potentials of cellphones that I've been preaching for years. In a way, they did release a tablet. It runs OS X, has wifi capabilities (with a full browser!), plays music, runs apps, etc... this might make a cellular contract worth it.
Apple Predictions/Hopes
Posted January 8, 2007 at 11:47 AM
- iTV (or whatever it will be called)
- Tablet Mac
I'd buy them.
Nip/Tuckered
Posted January 7, 2007 at 05:56 AM
It's late. However, before going to sleep, I've made some changes to the layout of this blog. Of note:
- Fixed heading (h[123]) tags so they don't show up bigger than the post titles.
- Removed the dotted line border on the ReBlog links, added the background-color change on the hover class to be consistent with blogposts and added "ReBlogged" to the beginning of each link. Each in an attempt to make things less confusing.
- Better lined-up the blockquote border-left
- Changed some sidebar column headers
While I'm on the subject, a note on the layout/appearance of links, permalinks and posts. Blog Posts are dated, with the date linked to an archive of all other posts for that same date. The # symbol in all cases is the permalink for that post, pointing to a page in the archive with only one post. For ReBlogs, the title links to the original URL, for blogposts, the title links to the permalink.
Bonus points to anyone for guessing the motivation for using # for permalinks. Hint: it has nothing to do with "numbers" or "pounds" and everything to do with etymology.
- Dan and Vivian
- I've been quietly working on their site. It's been a fun experiment getting lightbox working and incorporating Google Maps directly into their pages.
Year in Music (2006 Edition)
Posted January 6, 2007 at 03:01 AM
According to my last.fm records:
Top 10 Artists
- Broken Social Scene
- Four Tet
- Tortoise
- The Books
- Radiohead
- Explosions in the Sky
- Sigur Ros
- Death Cab for Cutie
- The Octopus Project
- Beck
(It should be noted that I am proud to have experienced 8 of these 10 live. The next time (if ever) Tortoise or The Books come through Dallas or Denton, I'm there)
Top 10 Albums
- Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
- Tortoise – TNT
- The Books – Lost and Safe
- Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence
- The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
- Thom Yorke – The Eraser
- Manitoba – Start Breaking My Heart
- The Octopus Project – One Ten Hundred Thousand Million
- Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
- Manu Chao – Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
Top 10 Tracks
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid – A
- Explosions in the Sky – Glittering Blackness
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid – B
- Explosions in the Sky – A Song for Our Fathers
- Explosions in the Sky – Snow and Lights
- Explosions in the Sky – Remember Me as a Time of Day
- Explosions in the Sky – Time Stops
- Explosions in the Sky – Magic Hours
- Explosions in the Sky – Look Into the Air
- Broken Social Scene – Our Faces Split the Coast in Half
- Language Log: Executable articles
Here's an idea whose time has come: scientific and technical papers should include an explicit, executable recipe for generating their numbers, tables and graphs from published data.
Interesting concept. However, technical documents should technically already do this. i.e. a paper should already provide enough information to enable the reader to reproduce the results. Papers are usually scrutinized heavily for this.
- symfony - open-source PHP web framework
Cool. If you like that "I want something like Ruby on Rails but for PHP5 instead" kind of way. I personally have become quite fond of XSL (and to a lesser extent, Smarty) and am generally irked by mixing PHP and HTML, let alone any sort of "text output", even moreso when I see PHP specifically outputting HTML.
This actually looks like it'd be a lot of work.
So this is the new year.
Posted January 2, 2007 at 03:56 AM
"There'd be no distance that could hold us back." --DCfaC
Happy New Year everyone!
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