…when more browsers adopt them, you'll be able to make some really attractive user interfaces without a gif or Javascript effect in sight .
Have you experimented with CSS3 animations yet?
Further reading
CSS3 animation properties on W3
Mr Max Voltar on CSS Animations
CSS Animation on Surfin' Safari
- Signal vs. Noise: Using CSS sprites with Rails helper methods
- Life at the Speed of Green: Text Truncation With CSS/SASS/Javascript
- JarrodSpillers.com: CSS: Advanced Formatting and Organization
- ZURBlog: Easily Turn Your Images Into Polaroids with CSS3
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: CSS Frameworks
- McKinney Station: Adding an iPhone Interface to an Existing Rails Application
Oh it was just an animated gif. # railsconf
I urge you not to click this link: http://www.post-literate.com/gerpunx/archives/2005/01/prepare_to_lose_your_mind.php
I think Deiters was trying to make a point about recursion in SQL being bad, but the image made my brain stop working.
Gem Neo4jr-social is a graph db that uses JRuby but isolates it in a Jetty server so you don't need to use JRuby throughout # railsconf
You can use Neo4jr-social to get …
- Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times: Speaking about Chef at RailsConf
- Envy Labs: Rails Envy
- Developing with Style: Whats new in Cake 1.2: Routing and Config
- without_scope - Home: Failures of a Monolingual Culture
- Rubynaut: Scaling a Rails app (Part 1 of 3)
- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 Robert Martin Keynote
…polls the server until the job is ready, which means that most of these users probably got an animated GIF spinner to look at until they got tired and closed the web page. The worst affected jobs took over twelve hours.
Happily, the downtime hit on a Saturday, which is the lightest day of the week for me. If this had happened a week ago right before Valentine's Day over 5,000 users would have been affected.
Apologizing To Affected Users
I used the Rails console to create a list …
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links for February 24, 2010
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week
- PaulBarry.com: Ain't Nothing But A G Thang
- Codeshooter's Weblog: If you're cleaning up your user's input in your views you're doing it wrong
- Ruby Inside: Cramp: Asychronous Event-Driven Ruby Web App Framework
…FilesMatch "\.( ico| jpg| jpeg| png| gif)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2764800, public, must-revalidate"
</ FilesMatch>
Again, if I need to change an image I'll have to give it a new name.
Again, YSlow is impressed and gives me Grade C. Remember that I haven't touched Mint yet.
4. Compression
Why isn't all website content compressed? It's so easy to do and all modern browsers accept it but still the majority …
- 80beans: On the Loose
- Open Sourcery: Getting "copy friendly" with jQuery
- SKORKS: How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: 5 Ruby-based static site generators
- Developing with Style: Cake's global CSS, Javascript and images
- English - AkitaOnRails.com: The Best Environment for Rails on Windows
…actually happening while the server crunches away. A common way to do so, is to add a little animated GIF that is only shown when the AJAX request is happening.
The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community.
Waging War…
- Giles Bowkett: Mongo
- Rail Spikes - Home: Bundler and I are breaking up
- alexjsharp.com - Home: Continuous Integration Installation Gotchas
- Too-biased - Home: Clarity in log files.
- Litany Against Fear: Load Rails conditionally with Rack
- Tom Ward: A rails template for gem bundler
For a long time I've periodically mapped Twitter and other distracting sites to localhost in my /etc/hosts file.
Tonight I decided to get a bit harsher with myself. OS X ships with an Apache web server not only built-in but up and running by default . So I did this:
cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
git init
vi .gitignore # ignore WebObjects/ and Java/
git add .gitignore *. gif *.html.*
vi index.haml
haml index.haml > index.html.en
vi index.css
- DigitalHobbit: Building a Twitter Filter With Sinatra, Redis, and TweetStream
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: LA Times Travel uses Twitter4R
- The messagepub Blog: New: C# Helper Library
- igvita.com: Smart Clients: ReverseHTTP & WebSockets
- Rails Illustrated: A Simple Improvement to Twitter
- Lee Munroe: #buildconf: The Greatest Web Design Conference The World Has Ever Seen
…feature to make organizing image files in Basecamp even better. Now files such as JPG , TIFF, PNG , and GIF images uploaded to Basecamp show a thumbnail preview on the Files tab. You can click the thumbnail to zoom-in for a larger preview. This makes finding files easier and brings image zooming available elsewhere in Basecamp to the Files tab.
- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 Starting up Fast Lessons from the Rails Rumble
- Developing with Style: Integrating Subversion into Basecamp and Campfire
- Jason Seifer: Live blogging BizConf Day 2
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #551
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Open your ears!
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2009.10 released
…discuss SEO . It's to raise awareness of this what I'm noticing to be an increasingly common tactic.
This idea isn't new. Adding URLs to a 1×1 pixel transparent gif for tracking purposes is old and common, but this is now being used to build backlinks.
You can make this impossible by disabling UBB/ HTML in your blog comments. Other methods include adding a border around smilies which are clickable.
…library is its ability to visualize the profiling information. By converting our profiler output into GIF or PDF formats, we immediately find several interesting codepaths in our Sinatra application (click on preview): majority of the time is spent in EventMachine (as expected), about 8% of time is taken up by the GC, and 30% of time is spent in the logging code calling Time.new! Armed with that information we now know where the bottlenecks are, their associated codepaths, and we …
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #083: 06/17/2009
- Alex Young: Making Thinking Sphinx Fast in Development Mode
- Nikos D.: More speed comparisons of Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius and MacRuby using Graticule
- oldmoe: How much horse power can your app engine deliver?
- zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: Serious Bizness
- Ruby Best Practices: "And your Mom, too." Ruby-talk best practices.
One of the issues with gif animations is being able to stop and start them at will. This post examines a method of using javascript to control CSS Background Sprites for Animation.
- p.latyp.us: PNG transparancy in IE5.5/6.0 with no size