Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
That’s DC as in “District of Columbia”, aka in the capital of the USA. At the end of this October we made a extra long weekend trip to Washington DC. It was a first trip for me, so lots of touristy stuff. Continue reading FalsePositives goes to DC
TIFF aka Toronto International Film Festival means lots of films in Toronto this september. For us it meant : The Dead Lands, Phoenix, Breakup Buddies, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, Mommy, 71, Tokyo Fiancée, The Imitation Game Continue reading TIFF 2014 : The Dead Lands, Phoenix, Breakup Buddies, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, Mommy, 71, Tokyo Fiancée, The Imitation Game
a new feature of Ruby on Rails 4.1 is that of “enum” which enables a simple, and very quick, mini state machine. The use case for such a feature is for a status field that has a small set of Continue reading Simple State Machines in Rails 4.1 with Enum
as coined in the Ruby Rogues podcat #168 with Craig Muth of Xiki fame : Continue reading Found Words : ADDDD or ADD Driven Development
Out of the 1980’s computing came “WIMP” as in “Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer”. With Mobile devices soon to be the default computer experience, the Mouse Pointer is dead and with it some bad habits in our web designs. Here are Two : Continue reading Giving the Finger to the WIMP : Mouse vs Touch in Web Design :
There is nothing quite so sad as having delivered a new feature or solved an issue, and then find out it doesn’t work in browser X (whether because it’s a dinosaur browser or just not shiny enough. Modernizr’s asynchronous conditional resource loader to the rescue! Continue reading Conditional Browser Feature Testing with Modernizr