Finally understood the distinctions between webservices and rest. Now I don’t mean the theory aspects Roy Fieldings paper adequately explains the concepts and frankly helps a great deal to try to introduce technology which is along the lines of ‘less is more’.
Archive for February, 2009
HTML meta data – MSThemeCompatible
2009
02.07
02.07
Be aware this <META HTTP-EQUIV="MSThemeCompatible" CONTENT="no"> which is there to disable the Windows XP teletubby theme causes Safari and Firefox to completely remove scrollbars.
The issue is tracked in a Firefox bug report.
Localising a rails app – in 20 mins
2009
02.07
02.07
I had an existing rails app which has nearly completed and during its development its been upgraded from 1.2 all the way up to 2.2.2. Anyway I sat down with the latest updates and figured that acts_as_paranoid and will_paginate needed to be altered but beyond that it seems it just worked.
Suffice to say I’d managed to configure the locales and make heavy use of google translate to begin adding an alternative language.
It is impressive how easily this has come together.
