Monthly Archives: December 2007

Active Scaffold Ajax CRUD Interfaces for Ruby on Rails

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Daz

This could be most useful in the near future… Most web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a … Continue reading →

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Getting Your DVDs Onto Your Mac/iPod/iPhone

Posted on December 29, 2007 by Daz

I’d looked at Handbrake a while back but the GUI was far too confusing for a simpleton like me. It seems like it’s been cleaned up quite a bit now and looks rather useful! (The little video giving an overview … Continue reading →

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Flot: Pure Javascript Plotting Library

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Daz

Yet more chart drawing goodness. This takes a different approach to the Google model by generating really good looking graphs all on the client-side in javascript - very nice! Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces … Continue reading →

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Google Chart API

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Daz

The chaps over at Google have come up with a neat webservice - an easy way to get charts onto your webpages, the Google Chart API. Google has finally released Google Charts API, which returns a PNG-format image in response … Continue reading →

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