http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop Smart web designing and web development. The eclips3.media (ECLM) development blog. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am just in the middle of a huge code re-factoring. I am dealing with a huge amount of code which was previously made by someone else. Most of you probably know that working with someone else's code is most of the time a pain in the ass. It gets ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/10/07/quick-tip-variable-naming-conventions/ A couple of months ago I've published our TextMate theme file which turned out to be really popular. Since that I've started experimenting with XCode but I could not get used to any of its default color themes. [caption id="attachment_51" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="XCode using the ECLM Color theme"][/caption] I started to port ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/10/06/eclm-theme-ported-to-xcode/ There was always a mess and confusion around the scaling abilities of Rails. We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/05/02/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/ Yesterday I ran into an issue with IE7 again (well, I assume not too many of you are surprised, ehh). When I was trying to move an element in the DOM (actually update) with an other element's innerHTML including a flash object, the movie (.swf) forgot to load. Right clicking on the flash ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/05/02/elementupdate-flash-and-ie7/ Apple has shipped the new version of Safari last week, which has enhanced usage of JavaScript. From now on Safari 3.1 natively supports getElementsByClassName, which is good, Safari can process and execute this function even faster than before. The upcoming version of Firefox also implements native support. Good. Performance upgrades ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2008/03/25/safari-31-and-prototype-conflicts/ Yes, you are right. It is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. So let's digg into the new features and everybody: update your stuff to get ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2007/12/12/rails-20-is-finally-out/ If you ever want to use a custom mouse cursor in AS3 (for say dragging) with rollover/rollout events toggling it (so it will only change the cursor for certain movie-clips), bear this in mind: When the user moves the mouse to the right with a certain (slowish) speed, the (original) hidden ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2007/12/11/custom-cursor-bug-in-actionscript3/ I usually check several development forums and I've found a thread on Rails Forum about development environments where people share a screenshot about their tools. I did this too, after several examples. Since my TextMate Theme got so many respects I decided to share it with the public. One of its ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2007/12/06/eclips3media-eclm-textmate-theme/ I`ve ran into a rather annoying bug today, if you want to use either the _height or textHeight property of a textfield using device fonts and set to autoSize, it`ll add a phantom line, so will report the heights as if there was an extra line in the textfield. The fix ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2007/12/03/flash-textfield-height-error-using-device-fonts/ Last week one of our webistes went down for some unknown reason, and I've found this kind of error message in production.log: LoadError (Expected xy file to define ...) Of course this is a useless error message which means Rails couldn't find a controller file which has been still at its proper ... http://www.eclips3media.com/workshop/2007/11/16/problems-with-rmagick-15x/