A monthly roundup of links I find cool for one reason or another. Note that I add links as I go, so the list may be small at the start of each month.
[Screencast] Backbone JS Introduction – Visualised
This is a part of what was going to be a full Backbone Screencast series. I stopped for several reasons, but decided I should release at least some sections to the public to see their response and how I can improve in future videos. I find that I am a very visual learner, and thought this style would be best for those new to Backbone or Javascript MVC frameworks in general.
Let me know your thoughts.
Sublime Text 2 – How to Create Snippets
Recently I changed editors from Rubymine to Sublime Text 2 (due to Rubymine being a bit slow on big projects). Anyway creating snippets and new short-cuts can turn you into the speediest of programmers. Here I look into creating a basic snippet, along with instructions on how to bind a keyboard shortcut to that snippet.
Easy Client-Side Form Validation for Rails 3.1
Form validation can be annoying, with all the error message styling and all. Heres an easy solution I just stumbled across. Note that this works best for when starting new apps, but should still plugin quite nicely into old ones.
PayPal Adaptive with Rails 3
As usual the PayPal documentation is quite messy and disorganised and thus I thought I’d document how I managed to get PayPal Adaptive working on a marketplace style website.
Tagged: paypal_adaptive, ruby on rails 3