Too much good stuff

Aug 30, 2006 by Andre
I've been pretty busy on a couple projects, and haven't done as much reading as I usually do. When you leave your RSS reader unattended for a week or so, it's seriously overwhelming to come back and try to catch up. There is just an insane amount of innovation going on right now. A few links from my reading this morning:

  • Unobtrusive Rails plugin (version 0.3) was released a week or so ago. Looking forward to trying it, and getting rid of some inline JS for my prototype-based projects.
  • jQuery went 1.0 -- congrats John Resig! Speaking of jQuery, there's a lively discussion based on the relative merits of prototype vs jQuery over here.
  • Here's a good overview of microformats.
  • Streamlined renders administrative interfaces for your Rails models with very little effort on your part. If you've ever wished scaffolding could deal with relationships, check out Streamlined. Although, I think Streamlined is designed to go much farther than you would ever go with scaffolding, i.e., create near production-ready administrative interfaces. Haven't tried it yet, but plan to.
  • For internal web apps that need to behave like desktop apps, check out the recently updated qooxdoo, a JavaScript library with all kinds of treeviews, dialogs, sortable tables, etc. It's heavy, but might be the right solution for a certain class of intranet applications.

Comments

1

Ruby on Rails Blog on Aug 30

Great summary of some of the useful tools that we developers can use. JQuery is definetely something worth using imo and is one of my favorite libs.

2

Paul Hepworth on Oct 02

Hey there Andre! I couldn't agree with you more. I too put my feed reader on hold until this evening and was also overwhelmed by the 100s of posts I have missed (including yours.) Thanks for the summary.

I am also looking forward to using the Unobtrusive Rails plugin.

Post a comment

 
This is so filters can reject the spam-bots. Thanks!