Again, we are under a month. This blog is coming down. I can’t waste any more money with Site5. Again, I’ll be moving to http://brettweiss.wordpress.com. I’ve already ported over many of the posts. I wish I could continue with a ruby on rails sandbox, but right now I’ve been playing around with Python and I’m using the google appengine as a playground. Here’s ...
I’m moving my blog. After struggling to find anytime to work on this site I finally caved and I’m moving the site to wordpress. Mainly, because it’s free. Here’s the new url:http://brettweiss.wordpress.com
I strongly believe in learning a new programming language each year. So my new thing this summer is to learn Python. My end goal is to dive into Django. I’m actually pretty excited about this. For starters learning something new is always exciting. Secondly, I’m finally at the point where I can evaluate the merits of a web framework against the others I’ve used.
Here are the resources I’m currently consulti...
The ruby vs java debate spins ahead with the Jruby vs Groovy framework/implementation discussion. Here is some background discussions to get you up to speed (theServerSide , InfoQ). The only problem I have with this whole debate as it relates to me is that Jruby and Groovy solve different issues for developers...
Found out recently (the hard way) that the prototype.js Ajax.Updater onLoading callback is not guaranteed to finish before the Ajax call has completed.
The situation we ran into was pretty standard. An Ajax.Updater call was setup to show a loading image (using onLoading callback), while we awaited response from the server. We also setup the onComplete callback to hide the image. However, when the ajax request was made we were find...
