Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Saw “Will Wall Street require Python? | ITworld”, on the Hot Links website and thought “interesting”, and then I read the description ! “Charles Stross was right. “with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming Continue reading Another episode of “It’s Charlie’s Stross’s fiction, we are just living in it” : Will Wall Street require Python?
This is the result of a couple of conversations I’ve had with small shop keepers. They may use some web technologies outside of their business for personal use : ebay, facebook, email, a few e-commerce sites. They may a iPod Continue reading Social Networking for Small Businesses
Last night was the 26th DemoCamp in Toronto, and the 3rd held at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management with a crowd of ~300 or so. We had a Key Note by April Dunford and Demos by Kobo Books, Status.net, OpenApps, TeamSave, SWIX. and food. kick ass!! Continue reading Toronto DemoCamp 26, still going strong with noodles, Lean Marketing and 5 Demos.
Part 2. Six Months ago I declared One Year to Go on the IE 6 Deathwatch In the beginning of this year it was disclosed that Google (as well as and 20+ other companies) had been the victim of Chinese Continue reading IE 6 Death Watch gets a Funeral Service and at least a few more Nails in it’s coffin
Or now to lose the rest of one’s limited hair :( …. I’ve come across a “doesn’t work as expect” issue while working in Prototype 1.6.0.2 JavaScript framework (“Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications” for sure!) 1$(‘someIdName’).parentNode.childElements() Continue reading different behavior for Prototype JavaScript childElements() in FF and IE
from the Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition. (fourth printing), in Chapter 8.3 iteration C2: Creating a Smarter Cart (page 104), when creating the initial CartItem model class, the price function is defined thusly : 123 def price Continue reading Agile Web Development with Rails, erratum