Today, I read a blog entry which, at first, I thought was a cruel joke. David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the wildly-popular Ruby on Rails web application development framework, announced that the widely-perceived-as-competetitor framework Merb codebase would be merged into Rails' codebase for Rail's next major release, version 3.0 ( Read more... )

Ooops! Today, I accidentally copied over some program files I'd been working on. I hadn't checked the code into the version control repository yet, and hadn't backed it up, either. I began recreating the functionality that the new, now non-existent code had implemented.

A few lines in, I had an AHA! moment... on Wednesday, I had been quite proud ( Read more... )

I came up with and implemented what I think is a pretty nice way of allowing users to specify a value when the appropriate value does not appear in an HTML form tag's value list. In this particular application, the user may also dynamically add fields to the form to accommodate multiple entries of the same type, in this case band and crew members ( Read more... )