by Peter Connolly | Apr 20, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails, technology
Creating sortable lists in Ruby on Rails isn’t difficult, but all of the tutorials I’ve found out there save the new order of the items immediately to the database. I want to only save the new sort order when the associated record is saved. Here’s...
by Peter Connolly | Apr 14, 2011 | featured, technology
I had a simple Javascript issue today which (for some reason) took a long time to solve. Basically, I wanted to trim white space from the beginning and end of a string. The standard answer on the internet is as follows; selectedtext =...
by Peter Connolly | Mar 8, 2011 | slideshow, technology
“Friends don’t let friends use IE6” Not me saying that, but Microsoft. On Friday 4th March Microsoft released the IE6 Countdown website, an aggressive campaign to persuade users to stop using IE6 and update to a newer IE. Its goal is to decrease IE6...
by Peter Connolly | Mar 8, 2011 | Drupal, featured
Working on a client site today, I came across a requirement to put a line-break in a menu item. I checked out the Drupal.org website, but there wasn’t much in there apart from fixes by people who were hacking core, so I had to work it out myself. Here’s...
by Peter Connolly | Feb 27, 2011 | Staff
Pete Connolly was born in the United Kingdom, in Liverpool, and has never met any of the Beatles. He has a lifetime of experience (well, 25 years, at least) working with computers and IT technology. The first computers he used at college in the 1980’s...
