Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
I am so totally a programmer when it comes to web page prettiness. Function over form all the way. Hopefully I can learn something from this site, as well as get some starting points and examples.
This article: Ajaxed Select Boxes in Rails was a quick explanation into the observe_field Ajax tag. It didn’t do what I needed it to though, but I did find out something interesting while working with Ajax.
The observe_field tag didn’t seem to work right under Firefox. I would get an ‘element not found’ javascript error in the prototype library. Once I switched to IE, I could get the form to submit when I changed the field. The wacky thing was that I had three observe_field tags, once for each of three select boxes. Any time I change one of the boxes, all three events would fire! So, my updated value would be updated, then the other two would reset it back to nothing.
Recently, I had to find the IP address for our PBX phone system, but I hadn’t written it down. I used Angry IP scanner to do a very quick scan of our internal subnet. It returns the computer name if possible, so it was trivial to look at the list and find IPs without a computer name and determine which IP I needed.
Jamis Buck on his Rails tip of the day does a sweet job of explaining the DoubleRenderError. I was one of those programmers that assumed that a redirect_to would immediately halt the execution of the program. After reading his explanation, I feel enlightened.
This fellow wrote a taskbar that you can use across multiple monitors.
All sorts of features, like moving screens between monitors with hotkeys and only showing the taskbar buttons for the windows on that screen.
If you program for a living and you don’t have two monitors, it’s one of the cheapest ways to increase your productivity.
The Sprint Center final budget was announced yesterday. $276 million dollars. No NHL or NBA tenant yet. 18,500 seats.
But wow, it’s going to look neat. Lots of exterior glass, which probably isn’t the wisest idea in Kansas City with our tornados…
The concourses aren’t concrete, but made of the same material as the floors out at Kansas City International.
