Standup 8/22/2011
Ask for Help "Is there a Ruby Gem that will take a string of code and identify what programming language it's written in?" Github has a gem called Linguist, but it doesn't identify the language by...
View ArticleStandup 8/24/2011
Ask for Help Cocoa applications can be made scriptable with AppleScript. Unfortunately, nobody at the office this morning had experience with this. Interesting Things SF Pivots should check out the...
View ArticleStandup 8/26/2011
Interesting Things Radio buttons behave strangely when they have no 'value' attribute. If you had a form containing a tag like this: <input type="radio" name="foo" /> (no value attribute), and...
View ArticleA convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js
Inheritance in Backbone Backbone.js comes with a minimalist OO inheritance framework similar to the one employed by CoffeeScript. Each base class has a static method called extend that is used to...
View Article[Standup][SF] 5/16: Travis CI – Distributed sticker distribution
Ask for Help "Anybody know of good short-to-medium-term housing in SF? Try airbnb, 'vacation rentals by owner', or homeaway. Interesting Things If you're setting up a postgres database using...
View Article[Standup][SF] 5/17 – we approve of the juggernaut
Ask for Help "Is Juggernaut still the best library to use for websockets, long-polling etc?" The last commit on master was about 2 months ago. One pivotal project is using it, and they approve of it....
View ArticleSuper secret special standup
Interestings Interested in speaking at the East Bay Ruby Meetup? Ruby-81 meets near on campus at Cal and is looking for speakers. It's a great place to get started with professional public speaking....
View ArticleNo go on #nogo
Helps #nogo links triggered on Firefox 15.0.1 We are using jqeury-ui-selectmenu and on some menus, selecting from the menu routes to the embedded href in the link (#nogo) instead of triggering the...
View Articlewhat, CI Reporter?
Helps iPad/iOS - full page redraws iOS devices do a full-page redraw when we introduce new height at the bottom of the page or when backgrounding/foregrounding the browser. How to avoid that? Jasmine...
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