Why are the instructions always wrong?
In the middle of developing yet another internal application in Ruby on Rails for metadata entry, it became clear this week that I needed to be able to type a name into a search box and have a dynamic dropdown generate with matches on that name. There’s a plugin called [...]
Am experimenting with the jQuery library for fun effects on the calendar application. I’m going to be replacing the “show/hide” function with a jQuery.slideToggle() and the AJAX calls for the calendar widget with jQuery.load().
This will help to reduce the amount of code developers will have to write in order to achieve the same effects. Instead [...]
In the Ruby on Rails framework, Ajax is easy. Pathetically easy. Combine one part what you have already, one part ‘_remote’, and one part ‘:update’ (that is, those are the code pieces you need to change), and presto — you have one slick application, capable of performing actions without a single page refresh. Add into [...]
The new calendar interface has been published and is ready for your enjoyment. Features include an AJAX mini calendar widget that allows you to limit results by individual day. By selecting the “>>” or “<
If you want to have some fun with Firefox, you can load in the Greasemonkey extension and then load in the script I re-purposed for linking Amazon to our LEO Catalog:
LEO Lookup – Search Amazon and at the title screen level you will be notified if NYPL owns a copy of that title [...]
One week later, and we have some code and some documentation that is already getting revised. What started as a simple form has started to bloom into a far larger project. The work request system as it was previously understood (see documentation on the Labs wiki) has overlapped significantly with the Dashboard cataloging interface that [...]
