It’s time for us to take another stroll around the Ruby realm and see what is happening. Our community abounds with news and events, so let’s dive in and see what we have this time. Ruby Heroes The annual Ruby Heroes awards…
Continue Reading…In what I hope will be the last of the coding for this series (even if it could use TONS more) I am focusing on reacting to map events. In this case, the map events in question are the user interacting with…
Continue Reading…Last time we completed the client-side items needed to display the Events on the User Events page. Our focus now turns to adding and removing events asynchronously using Backbone. In our screenshot of the Events page, the only part of the view…
Continue Reading…Sometimes the idea for an article strikes me out-of-the-blue, like a lightning bolt or an airborne toxin. The quality of these sudden onset ideas varies greatly, and it usually directly proportional with the number of beers I’ve had pre-idea strike. My most…
Continue Reading…Last time we setup our client-side code and made the map. In this article, we’ll get Events integrated into our Backbone-based client code, displaying the collection of user Events. Event Views The following screenshot is from the last post, and shows how…
Continue Reading…There I was, sitting at my desk looking over the upcoming article schedule for Rubysource, when I realized I had inadvertently published TWO articles on Wednesday. The immediate consequence of my stupidity is we’d have no article to run on Friday (we try to…
Continue Reading…We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series, I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will lower taxes,” and I have not…
Continue Reading…In this post, I want to finally get the Occasions MVC sequence done. This is the seventh post in the series, and I thought we’d be farther by now. Those responsible for our less-than-expected progress have been sacked. First, however, let’s make…
Continue Reading…In our first (of hopefully many) screencast, we look at Pik, which is a Ruby Version Manager for Windows. Show Notes Pik on Github RubyInstaller for Windows Google Group Post about version 0.3.0
Continue Reading…On a day like any other, I was scanning through my Twitter feed searching for knowledge and inspiration. Although I didn’t know it yet, this day of Tweet Fishing would prove fruitful and change the direction of Loccasions forever. (You should imagine…
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