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• Pathfinder Announces Noel Rappin’s “Developing iPhone Applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse,” is Now Available on IBM’s developerWorks Site (08/01/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 3: Developing advanced views for iPhone” by Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin is now available at IBM’s developerWorks site.

• Pathfinder Announces Part 4 of Brian Dillard’s “Ajax Overhaul” Tutorial Series is Now Available from IBM’s developerWorks Site (08/01/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, today announced the publication of ‘Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms’.

• Pathfinder Announces Noel Rappin’s Newest Installment of “Developing iPhone Applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse,” is Now Available on IBM’s developerWorks Site (07/09/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced the second in a series of articles: “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 2: Displaying iPhone content to the client”.

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Implementing linked multiselects with jQuery, LiveQuery, and Low Pro: Part 1: Requirements and interaction design

Brian Dillard, 18 August 2008

Last week I spent a couple of days lashing together a UI widget for a project that needed a little Ajax assistance. As always, I looked for an opportunity to learn something along the way, so I got signoff on using jQuery and some plugins I hadn't previously employed. The result? A down-and-dirty mini-project that let me test drive Color Animations ...

Many Varied Components, or… Multi Variable Complexity, or… Mainly Vanilla Coding

Noel Rappin, 15 August 2008

(Image comes from the Rails Envy MVC public service announcements -- and I hope they don't mind) Here's the question: Describe the MVC design pattern as it is implemented in Ruby on Rails. And the followup: In an MVC design, where would you place complex business logic? This is part of the standard phone screen we give to potential Rails devel ...

Custom Flex 3 Lightweight Preloader with source code

Sasha Dzeletovic, 14 August 2008

Here we have a demonstration to an age old problem in Flash (inherited in Flex) - the Preloader. I think that the Flex community has long ago grown bored with the default preloader, which I am very thankful to Adobe engineers for providing us in the first place. It's just that we keep seeing it over and over and over... Another important thing tha ...

Mass Assigning Inheritance Column Values for ActiveRecord STI with Rails

Anthony Caliendo, 13 August 2008

One of the security features in Rails is to prevent mass assigning values for certain columns (when passing a hash to #new, #attributes=, and #update_attributes).  This is to ensure that a malicious user can't exploit the system by passing in values for certain attributes you really don't want them to change. In Rails 2.1, one of the attributes th ...

Working effectively as a team of one: Five tips for front-end developers on Agile teams

Brian Dillard, 11 August 2008

Most UI engineers - a.k.a. front-end folks - have worked in environments where they're a shared resource of one person. I often did so early in my career, when I played "webmaster" to a team of writers, editors and visual designers at various online publications. Now that I'm the Ajax lead at a small, Agile software development firm, I'm no longer t ...