More about methods, it’s inspired/spurred by a comment on methods, public_methods, and private_methods by Pit Captain. It also corrects some misconceptions I had (and may have (wrongly) given others).
I’ve added a new category, “eating crow” for this and any other postings where I step back and re-evaluate my posts. This is [...]
For a project I’m currently working on I wanted to make some “bubble” tooltips. In order to cut down on the size/number of images, I’m using css sprites. A quick google reveals that nobody else has (at least on the first page) put together tooltips using sprites. The technique will work with any sort of [...]
Earlier I was going through rss feeds when I noticed that a blog had been updated. I thought to myself “Oh, cool! they’ve updated.” It struck me that there are certain individual (as in written by an individual) blogs which I follow and am excited when I see posts. Here’s [...]
I think that irb is one of the most useful tools in the rails toolbox. It allows me to quickly determine how something works, sample results (for putting into blogs, don’tcha know) and makes me a more effective ruby developer.
One of the nice things about irb is it’s .irbrc file where you can place startup [...]
