January 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
(CSS, Standards)
I discovered this method of clearing floated elements (this may be old news to some of you) in a layout using CSS while searching the web for alternatives to inserting extra markup just so the layout will look right (I’m looking at you, <div style="clear:both"></div>). This is just brilliant, a single style declaration, “overflow: auto;” to the element containing the floats and that’s it. It seems to work with all major browsers, which includes Firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera and Safari.
There is an extra step to make this work in Internet Explorer 6 though. A dimension needs to be applied to the element that the overflow:auto; declaration is being applied on in order to trigger the hasLayout property in the element.
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January 18th, 2007 at 12:45 am
(Standards)
I enjoyed the first Singapore Web Standards Group meetup held at Raffles Girls School. Saw a few familiar faces and several new ones as well. It’s good to know that web standards are alive and kicking in Singapore. I really appreciate the effort given by Lucian who organised the meetup, and for the entertaining and informative presentations given by Coleman and Nick.
Although I thought the meetup could have done with more publicity, I only got to know of it from Sip Khoon a week before. I suppose it’s something that we can do to make people aware of the options available
Update
Ivan Lian has pictures of the meetup on Flickr. Check it out!
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January 11th, 2007 at 10:26 am
(Rails, Ruby, Software Development)
The Rails Podcast has an excellent interview with Josh Shairbaum and Dan Manges from JP Morgan on using Rails in the enterprise. Do check it out if you’re at all interested in introducting Ruby/Rails to your particular company.
Listening to Josh and Dan made me realise that I’m quite fortunate to be working in a company where there are no corporate traditions to follow when it comes to technology. I’ve developed 2 applications for use by staff and clients alike so far and they’re both powered by Rails. Being the sole developer in my company, Rails is a perfect fit and this combination has shown its worth.
Josh mentioned that his development team of 3 got Rails in the door by using it to develop a reporting application, an app where the implementing technology was not a big issue with corporate managers. By having the reporting application running AND available to end users within 1.5 months demonstrated the productivity gains that can be achieved by Rails. A lot of evangelizing and demonstrations were done to help their cause too. I think that they benefited a fair bit from having key people in other functional units willing to give Rails a try, even though it required them to risk doing something that’s new and by corporate definition, risky.
It’s encouraging to listen to them and their passion for Rails was apparent in the way they talked about and how they dealt with people who did not understand what it was.
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January 6th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
(Agile, Rails, Ruby, Software Development)
I’ve started using RSpec in my Rails projects. Besides serving the purposes of testing my application, it has also become an extremely useful design tool. Comparing the DSLs for Test::Unit and RSpec, the latter expresses the intention of the tests much more clearly and quickly. Luke Redpath does a great job of explaining the basics of Behaviour Driven Development using RSpec on Rails. Its a must read if you’re interested in exploring BDD for your Rails development.
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