thyncology

4 ruby Entries

• 03-27-2009 All That Jazz I’d been toying with the idea of expanding JazzRecord into a full MVC stack for building Javascript apps, and I finally spent enough time thinking and obsessing about it to get some work done.
  
  I’m calling it JazzFusion.
  
  It’s not well-organized yet, but the ideas are there, and it’s going to be very modular. You’ll be able [...]
• 03-05-2009 SafariWatir Nuisances The place where I work (RideCharge) is a Rails shop. As such, we’ve embraced numerous Ruby technologies, including several ActiveRecord plugins, test frameworks, and other components used at various points in the stack. I deal with a lot of view-side and presentational stuff, including having embraced Sass for stylesheets (I even use them in some [...]
• 09-04-2008 Thoughts on ThyncRecord This is a reposting of an email I sent Frank Lee, who I’ve tapped to help out in building optimized queries for ThyncRecord. Just figured I’d share.
  
  “Because of [JavaScript's prototype-based inheritance vs normal OOP], there is no proper concept of class methods and instance methods. (I don’t believe moo has implemented such a feature yet, [...]
• 07-04-2007 Recent Tech Review Well, it’s been a cool few weeks lately. Safari has come out on Windows (posting from it now… minus TinyMCE of course) and it is indeed compact, fast-loading into memory and fast-loading of the page, but has some issues:
  
  Most importantly for the moment, it crashes occasionally. I haven’t pinpointed any specific [...]