All, It's that time again! We will be meeting next Tuesday (12 September) from 6-8 PM. The location will be firmed up and announced in the next day or so. Wynn...
All, Matt and the folks at CPSG have again come through for us with a place to meet. The meeting will be on the sixth floor, room 604 of the CPSG office ...
Ooo, but just think of all the extra certification income that could be had ;)... (ERBs - that'll confuse a lot of folks, they'll have to come up with another...
The latest ruby stable release (1.8.5) broke the ability to breakpoint, which I use a fair amount in certain circumstances. Found this workaround and figured...
Thanks for passing that along. I had been thinking about upgrading, even though there did not seem to be that much difference between it and 1.8.4. Have you...
After last night's presentation and discussion, I thought you might find this interesting: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html It...
Wynn, I wanted to follow up on something that you mentioned during tonight's Sept. RoR meeting. I believe at one point you mentioned "overriding the save...
I´ve posted the PowerPoint slides from last night´s talk to the Files area <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Houston-RoR/files> of our Yahoo! Groups site....
Wynn, I wanted to follow up on something that you mentioned during last nights Sept. RoR meeting. I believe at one point you mentioned "overriding the save...
What's the consensus of the group wrt creating table-less forms and data layouts? I've used <ul> and <li>s (combined with css) to do the layouts, as well as...
Hi, Keith, Mark up should have semantic meaning. If you need tabular data, there is nothing wrong and it is appropriate to use tables. If you need a simple...
Keith, For a while there I was trying to eschew tables no matter what, because I had read how tables were evil from all of the CSS people. But I find that...
Wynn, I agree with you as far as tables for tabular data. We've used tables for straight tabular stuff, but there is a semantic question we have as to whether...
Cool - thanks! I see that you use tables for your tabular data, which makes perfect sense to me. I'd seen zengarden - amazing isn't it? Keith ... Keith...
Here's a second example. I treid this version with list tags, but it wasn't possible (correct me if I'm wrong) to click on the folder icon to expand the list...
It looks like the email I sent earlier died on the wire somewhere. If it shows up in the meantime, I apologize for the second transmission. I've been...
. Take three! It looks like the email I sent earlier died on the wire somewhere. If it shows up in the meantime, I apologize for the second transmission. I've...
I read Amy's piece, too, and the dl/dt/dd approach did not strike me as semantically sound. It seems arbitrary to make the label and hint the "term" (the dt...
I'm from the school of tables for tabular data. But there are designs that call for the use of tables for layout. My rule for those cases is as follows: 1....
I´ve enrolled us in O´Reilly <http://www.oreilly.com/> ´s User Group Program <http://ug.oreilly.com/> . This means we can get a free copy of O´Reilly...
Good idea. Depending on how topical they are we could incorporate brief reviews into the meetings as well. I'm always excited to hear about (and pick up)...
Well, I hate to ask someone to be the group's newsletter editor because I know that is a lot of work to ask someone to do, but what if we established an actual...