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Debugging and Visibility

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:42:02 +0000

I have recently been developing Spreadsheet::HTML and apart from a handful of mistakes, two particular CPANTS smoke tests (see this and that) always have one specific test fail. And only that one test. Here is the relevant output: [crayon-5e1b715e87615678886953/] Needless to say, i was hard pressed to spot the problem. I usually just ignored these two ...

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Adding Twitter Bootstrap to Rails (part 2)

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:34:21 +0000

When i last left off, i was stuck with an unideal solution for displaying form validation errors -- a very important part of collecting user input on the Web. Furthermore, this unideal solution broke the form layout itself. Rather than start hacking into the source code of Rails, i decided to search the Web for ...

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Adding Twitter Bootstrap to Rails (part 1)

admin — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:17:50 +0000

Man i love me some Twitter Bootstrap. It's the bomb. I don't care if you convert or not. It's mine. Thhhhpppppppttttt!!!! Jog off ... Still here? Awesome! 😀 If you've been reading along so far (i'm obviously talking to myself now ...) you know that i have been implementing the Depot example from Agile Web ...

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First RoR Project

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:35:43 +0000

I went ahead and uploaded my first RoR project to github: http://github.com/jeffa/RoR-Depot This project is simply the example web app from Agile Development With Rails (4th ed.). I am sticking very closely with the instructions but i am using Twitter Bootstrap instead of the author's stylesheets. I am also using Travis CI so i am getting some ...

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Comparing Rails to Catalyst

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 04:25:52 +0000

I recall (Central Park in fall ...) man i digress. I recall attempting to learn Catalyst many years ago and being hit with a lot of arcane rules and well ... just plain bizarre usage of Perl in general. I didn't like Mason nor Krang very much either but i managed to learn them. Catalyst ...

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Moving onto Ruby?

admin — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:12:52 +0000

Looks like I am finally making the switch away from Perl. I starting learning Ruby yesterday and so far it is everything i wanted from Perl 6, which has yet to see the light of development day. I am also enjoying Ruby far more than Python, a language i still somewhat despise. The following quote ...

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