Category Archives: Code

It’s all about the support

Posted on March 26, 2008 by David Banes

Support is our driving force at Cleartext, if customers are happy they spend more and give you a bit of leeway when things go off the rails. It’s for this reason I’m recommending JoomlaPlates as a Joomla template provider. During … Continue reading →

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Joomla 1.5 ‘feature’

Posted on March 20, 2008 by admin

Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to … Continue reading →

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Current valid CSS page layouts

Posted on January 25, 2008 by admin

When looking around for current methods for 3 column CSS web page layouts I came across this page on a site which has a great collection of valid CSS layouts.

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Cool script to help IE out…

Posted on January 17, 2008 by admin

From the authors page…“IE7 is a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.”

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Joyent: Slingshot

Posted on November 28, 2007 by David Banes

And while I was looking for Flex related content I found Slingshot another excellent idea for deploying desktop apps. This one is a bit like Google Gears allowing browers apps to run offline.

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Flex

Posted on November 28, 2007 by David Banes

I was asked about Flex today and surprisingly I remembered that it’s a cool OS and browser independent development platform, using ActionScript and Flash, I think. Anyway, if you’re looking for a new way to deliver apps that will work … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails deployment

Posted on August 21, 2007 by David Banes

There’s always a hidden issue with IT systems. As great as Ruby on Rail is at producing web applications in record time I’m finding that setting up a production server is rather more challenging.

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Ruby on Rails and Hobo

Posted on July 29, 2007 by David Banes

I’ve spent a lot of time with Rails and Hobo over the last few weeks and I may have found a development system that i can get to grips with without having to spend the nest two years fully immersed … Continue reading →

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Sidetracked

Posted on June 24, 2007 by David Banes

Got very sidetracked to day, I started out working on my Ruby on Rails skilling up project and got into Rails plugins, which led me to the forge, which led me to RadiantCMS and then to Terralien where I considered paying … Continue reading →

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Spitting the dummy…

Posted on June 18, 2007 by David Banes

Well, I’ve made good progress, but stuck when arriving at p182. Part III: real Rails. Listing 9-2 on the next page has a ‘require_gem…’ at the start of the page and try as I may i can’t get past this. 

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Aptana

Posted on June 16, 2007 by David Banes

Well, I discovered that Aptana have taken over RadRails and downloaded their IDE. After a few hours messing around and using MacPort to install Ruby, Gems and more I’ve got to the stage where I can run the first example … Continue reading →

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