Adventures in HttpContext

In my never ending love/hate relationship with Ruby, Rails and my Mac I’ve finally gotten Ruby 1.9 up and running with Rails 2.3 and MySql 64 bit.  All on Snow Leopard.  There was an even a little detour with Readline.  If you’ve scoured other posts about Snow Leopard, Ruby, Rails and Mysql and ended up here I feel your pain.  I hope this helps you on your way. Most of this info is from other places which I’ve explained in a little (just a little) but more depth. Read More

It turns out my most popular article of the past year was Event Pooling with jQuery’s Bind and Trigger.  I wanted to write a follow up article taking this approach one step further by discussing how to logically organize the relationship between binders and triggers on a javascript heavy UI.  It’s important to properly design the code structure of your javascript to create a flexible and maintainable system.  This is essential for any software application.  For javascript development, you don’t want to end up with odd dependencies hindering changes or randomly bubbled events causing bugs. Read More

It doesn’t matter what industry you work for- every company is a technology company.  At the end of the day a business needs to provide something somebody wants- quickly and efficiently.  This is- quite simply- driven by technology.  And you- as a software developer- are directly responsible for making that happen.  What will separate you from other developers is not how well you program-  it’s how well you create the right technology to help your business work better.

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