Monthly Archives: May 2006

Ruby Chronicles #1: Blocks and Yield

Posted on May 18, 2006 by admin

A “wtf” at lunch today while reading this book. There is a section on the 2 types of blocks in Ruby’s methods, and a description of the “yield” method. Totally jacked; it’s basically like sending an anonymous function in ActionScript … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby | 5 Comments

Flickr’s New Non-Flash Organizer

Posted on May 16, 2006 by admin

Just read Nathan Pitman’s report about the updated Flickr Gamma version. One particular note was the Organizer is no longer done in Flash. Scanning the the announcement page, help page, and bug list, I couldn’t really find any information or … Continue reading →

Posted in News | 5 Comments

Sessions with Flex and Flash

Posted on May 15, 2006 by admin

I’m looking for corroboration, confirmation, and/or corrections, so if you got ‘em, throw ‘em in the comments please and I’ll update this post. The more popular Flex and Flash gets, the more exposure I get to large server-side development teams. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Flex | 17 Comments

I got Flash to talk to Rails

Posted on May 12, 2006 by admin

I went through this tutorial, and replaced all the Flex stuff with 56 lines of ActionScript in Flash 8. Getting XML into Flash is the Flash Developer’s tried, true, and trusted way of getting dynamic data. Took me 30 minutes … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Rails | 9 Comments

Agile Web Development with Rails First Impressions

Posted on May 9, 2006 by admin

Can’t sleep (as usual) so figured I’d write up my first impressions of Ruby and Rails after reading the first 8 chapters of Agile Web Development with Rails Sunday afternoon. Let me precursor this with I’ve only read 8 chapters … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails, Ruby | 4 Comments