MoR3: Montreal on Rails show notes.
Tonight was another interesting Montreal on Rails meetup. As was explained in briefly at the end of the evening the reason why James and I presented tonight was because we pushed one another to share our knowledge more. François Beausoleil also presented a great tool to solve the problem of subversion externals causing havoc on your repository.
Anyways as promised here are a few links to downloads.
Slides in PDF format - 675kb
Not much in that pdf but it’s there for the taking.
Rails Application I Used For The Demo - 1.8Mb
This is the full rails application including table.js, the sortable table plugin I mentionned I was open sourcing at the meetup. I’d wait for version 1.1 before doing anything major with it.
I was told that we’ll have video and pics of the event getting uploaded shortly. I’ll link to them in another blog post here soon.
on October 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 am
Congrats Gary that was an amazing presentation, you’re gonna be a javascript rock star pretty soon, get your sunglasses.
on October 4th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
ok i was late and missed your keynote special effects, but it was a great presentation nonetheless. :-)
cheers
on November 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hi Gary,
I tried out your sortable table plugin in my app. Here are some suggestions for your version 1.1 from the shortcomings i encountered:
- In my tables I have $ and % signs which make the numbers sorting alphabetically rather than numerically. Would be great if the plugin would figure out by itself that a string containing one of those character is in fact a number and sort properly.
- In my tables I have many links, and the plugin would sort by the full ‘href’ rather than just the text content of the ‘a’ tag. It would be great if the plugin automatically leave out the html tags from the sorting.
Apart from these shortcomings it’s a really neat plugin! Keep up the nice work. In the meantime I’ll stick to my non-js sorting :o(
cheers,
Jean-Sebastien