The Seattle Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup Group Weekly Meetup

Posted on March 17, 2010 by My Meetups

The Seattle Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup Group Our weekly events are very informal and non-presentational. It's a good place to come hang out if you have questions about something specific or if you want a smart group of railers to hang with while you code. We meet in the same place and at the same time as the Seattle Ruby Brigade, another group of really smart railers. And although many of the members of the Ruby Brigade aren't actualy members of our meetup.com group, they're all super nice and all are welcome. There are a lot of top tier ruby experts in the Ruby Brigade, and most are willing to help out and share. Continue reading →

jQuery 3-D plugin jParallax

Posted on March 13, 2010 by timani

So as i was working on getting the site updated and ready, i was going through some links and just checking out some resources. Finally i stumbled upon, what may be for me the most exciting Jquery plugin in recent memory!!!

What could be so great? well it is this jQuery plugin called the jParallax. I think to really understand its best to answer the age old questions: Who, What, Why, Where, How, When. Continue reading →

jQuery & URL parameters

Posted on March 2, 2010 by timani

If you have ever had to work with PHP the luxury of becoming used to simple things like request parameter processing can be lost. Sometimes you have no alternative if you are working with a simple HTML file.

Hence comes in this nifty little jquery plugin, it allows you to grab parameters from the url and then process them accordingly. One way that this could be useful is if you wanted to detect a page state or to display or hide an element depending on the state.

You can download the plugin here and its also fairly light too which is good.

Here is an example of the source, its relatively short so i am posting it here and you can give it a try: Continue reading →

Disable the drupal.css

Posted on March 2, 2010 by timani

I am sure everyone has had a time when using drupal that you have had to create a page and needed to alter the output that may be given by a Drupal module. A lot of the time this leads to much frustration cursing and in the end some sort of core hacking or something of that nature as well as cursing and hours of confusion.

Introduction

I think that is one of the subtle failures by drupal is getting all the power it has harnessed and being able to easily access resources on certain topics. Yet once you manage to get into the details it can be pretty sweet.

In this case there is a bit that needs to be understood about themeable functions, and for that be sure to look here for the basics of theming and what it entails. This is more a practical example. Continue reading →