simplificator http://blog.simplificator.com web applications Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en script.aculo.us multiple drag and drop http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/22/scriptaculous-multiple-drag-and-drop/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/22/scriptaculous-multiple-drag-and-drop/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:03:11 +0000 beat http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/22/scriptaculous-multiple-drag-and-drop/ Today I added multiple selection ability to to the scriptaculous sortable, a feature that is still missing on the main branch. Since this is a byproduct of the project I’m currently working on, it’s mere a demo of how to do it and not an actual patch for scripty. But maybe it could help you, if you have to do something similar… The demo is available at http://simplificator.com/scriptaculous-multidrag/.

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The ‘heavy cloud’ project of Mia Marfurt is well under way - the bricks are laid and the wall takes shape - although still behind a wooden support structure. The opening will be on October 22nd - check out the web site.

Office Zurich

We added some pictures to our own site - a gallery of our offices for example, and more project and customer documentation. We’re using radiant as cms, so our page gained some flexibility. So we will have an easier time to keep it current.

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/16/visual-impressions/feed/ miamarfurt.com http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/09/miamarfurtcom/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/09/miamarfurtcom/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:30:54 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/09/miamarfurtcom/ “Heavy wall” is an art-project by Mia Marfurt. Visit her new website to see what it is about.

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/09/miamarfurtcom/feed/ acrush.net released http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/07/acrushnet-released/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/07/acrushnet-released/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:43:17 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/07/acrushnet-released/ acrush.net went live (some days ago… but we were to busy to blog). Acrush is a protection sleeve for your iPhone 3G. I like the “glow in the dark” version :-).Acrush was born some days before apple expo in paris and we only had one day to get the website live. The Shop is beeing developed right now… please be patient.

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/10/07/acrushnet-released/feed/ method name of the day http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/22/method-name-of-the-day/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/22/method-name-of-the-day/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:36:37 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/22/method-name-of-the-day/ I just stumbled over this method name: 


“reset_column_information_and_inheritable_attributes_for_all_subclasses” which does not have documentation.


Why should it. The name says everything. 

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Jake Scruggs interpretes the values like this:

  • 0-10: Awesome
  • 11-20: Good enough
  • 21-40: Might need refactoring
  • 41-60: Possible to justify
  • 61-100: Danger
  • 100-200: Whoop, whoop, whoop
  • 200 + Someone please think of the children



(and smarticus says that a score of 60+ means ‘WTF are you doing’).



So how can you integrate this in your continous integration environment? Or just your in your unit tests?
Enter flogger:



def test_flog_scores()
assert_flog(’somefile.rb’)
end



Flogger just adds an assert_flog() assertion which you can use in your unit tests. Simple.


Find more in the README

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/11/flogger-unit-test-your-flog-scores/feed/ Long workday http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/long-workday/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/long-workday/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:07:14 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/long-workday/ Beat: OK, i’ve upped Cruise Control we now can use it again with github.com. What projects do you want me to add ?
Pascal: Why not all of them. It will surely make us write better software
Beat: “The race for quality has no finish line so technically it’s more like a death march”

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/long-workday/feed/ Time zones in Rails 2.1 http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/time-zones-in-rails-21/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/time-zones-in-rails-21/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:23:09 +0000 marco http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/time-zones-in-rails-21/ Rails 2.1 has pretty good support of Time Zones. It’s possible to save user-specific time zones. So if your users are from different zones, you can display the output in the corresponding zone of the user.
To set a default time zone, add config.time_zone in environment.rb. For the output, set the current time zone in before filters via application controller.

def set_zoneTime.zone = @user.time_zone if @userend

If you display timestamps in ActionMailer, you must set the Time.zone option within the ActionMailer class. Otherwise, the default settings of the database are taken (Time zone: UTC)

Rails provides nice helper methods to work with time zones. A useful method is in_time_zone(). It presents a time in any time zone.
>> t = Time.now
>> t.in_time_zone('Bern')=> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:47:00 +0200

Several rake task helps you to find out the possible zones:
rake time:zones:all
rake time:zones:local
rake time:zones:us

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/09/01/time-zones-in-rails-21/feed/ Scientists discover algorithm to create colors http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/scientists-discover-algorithm-to-create-colors/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/scientists-discover-algorithm-to-create-colors/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:14:35 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/scientists-discover-algorithm-to-create-colors/ colors.simplificator.com is online!


Unbelievable, isn’t it.Until now you had to rely on services offering a limited amount of color palettes.
But thanks to an international team of scientists we can now have gazillions of color combinations for you. Just visit colors.simplificator.com and hit refresh until you find a palette you like.
And no need to hurry we have tons of colors in stock. 

]]> http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/scientists-discover-algorithm-to-create-colors/feed/ New Gem Released http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/new-gem-released/ http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/new-gem-released/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:57:01 +0000 pascal http://blog.simplificator.com/2008/08/26/new-gem-released/ New ? Ah… not really. Would be fond to say that TLS support for ActionMailer is new. Anyway we packed up the code which is floating around on the web to add TLS support to pre Ruby 1.9 projects. Just for convenience. Find it on github.

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