I know its been almost two weeks since its all over, things may not be fresh in mind. And all of us were very busy with “go live” for one of our client projects. But as its “better later than never”, I am putting my thoughts about the recently concluded RubyConf held in Bangalore on [...]
It is common requirement to disable the callbacks like after_save, after_create etc while importing/migrating data. One way to avoid this is by directly importing the data into DB using a command like mysqlimport. But by doing that, the Rails validations etc will not work. We can disable the callbacks using the skip_callback method. For eg:
User.skip_callback(“create”,:after,:send_confirmation_email)
The above [...]
Unit Testing Javascript is great using JSTestDriver and Jasmine, but maintaining HTML fixtures for the same is a pain. One of the approaches for fixing the same issue is by creating the HTML from the controller specs and loading the HTML using AJAX. This approach is mentioned here.
But I could not make it work with [...]
When firewall was introduced within our local network, the Hudson server stopped working with the error:
javax.jmdns.impl.tasks.Prober run
WARNING: run() exception
java.io.IOException: Operation not permitted
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.send(Native Method)
at java.net.DatagramSocket.send(DatagramSocket.java:625)
at javax.jmdns.impl.JmDNSImpl.send(JmDNSImpl.java:1200)
at javax.jmdns.impl.tasks.Prober.run(Prober.java:163)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)
And when you access hudson in browser, it stays with the message “Please wait while Hudson is getting ready to work….” forever.
Initially I thought the problem might be [...]
In one of our projects which is primarily a web application, the client had asked that we go ahead and make as much of the copy available across the site, editable. This included not just copy in static pages such as “About Us”, but also copy in dynamic pages. I mean things like tooltips for [...]
One of the requirements we had was to sign the applet that we built for UserThoughts. We had purchased Comodo’s code signing certificate from KSoftware. When you download the certificate from their site, it automatically gets installed in IE. Follow these steps for converting it into format which you can use with the Java Jarsigner.
Export [...]
Does your web site design have a lot of widgets like tabs, overlays, scrollable etc., to be implemented? Do you want to design and implement smooth looking sites with out using flash? Do you want to improve the UX on your site?
If your answer is yes for any of these questions then JQuery Tools is [...]
We had a very simple requirement, to invoke my DLLs using Java code for couple of reasons:
We want to reuse application code built for a .NET application
We want to integrate the DLLs with a Java based sever technology
Should be simple enough to maintain the code by .NET professionals
There are couple of Java-COM [...]
