May 2010

A Beginner's Sinatra Tutorial

  • May 31, 2010 at 6:00 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip

  • In my desperate attempt to grapple with Ruby people keep introducing me to new and 'better' ways to use it, before I've had a chance to understand what I was doing with the previous one they lauded. Currently under my nose is Sinatra, which would probably be great if I understood what I was doing. [...]

HTML5 Readiness

  • May 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip

  • This is a very nice demonstration of what HTML5/CSS3 is capable of, and shows how ready the various browsers are for it. Visit HTML5 Readiness

Education Eye – Mapping Innovations

  • May 19, 2010 at 5:02 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip

  • Education Eye is a pretty tool from Futurelab, showcasing online educational innovations. “Education Eye is a free, engaging and easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of useful and relevant innovations across educations’ varied communities. Connecting people with innovative uses of digital technology, new resources and new approaches to teaching and learning [...]

Scratching my head over Rails

  • May 17, 2010 at 9:20 am
  • Categories: Help!,Troubleshooting

  • I’m trying to teach myself Rails, but I’m not even a programmer. So when I’m stumped, I’m fairly stumped. Currently my app is not saving form data when it should be, and redirecting when it shouldn’t. Update I’ve actually fixed this now. It was the ‘home_path’ route that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone [...]

Using Audioboo to satisfy the need for an audience

  • May 16, 2010 at 7:28 am
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I really like Audioboo, but have struggled to understand why. Yesterday it finally dawned on me that it allows me to satisfy the need to perform without requiring an audience to perform to. I’ve always wanted to read The King’s Breakfast out loud to someone. I tried it with my nieces the other week, but [...]

Crowdsourcing legal issues for website commissions

  • May 12, 2010 at 9:51 am
  • Categories: Web design

  • I’m trying to draw up a list of key legal considerations for people commissioning websites. I welcome your input. There is a lot of this information littered around the Internet, but I want a simple list of key points with links to further information that I can share with people; so I thought I’d try [...]