Monthly Archives: January 2012

Leveraging the Ruby language for code readability

Posted on January 22, 2012 by David Sulc

Recently, I created a rake task to load dummy data into a Rails app. I wanted the data to be somewhat random to make it easier to spot design issues depending on data being filled in or left blank. But … Continue reading →

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Rake tasks, arguments, and external scripts

Posted on January 15, 2012 by David Sulc

I’ve previously covered how to use an external script from within a Rake task. This time, we want to be able to pass an optional argument to our task, that will be used within our external script, too.

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First steps with Popcorn.js

Posted on January 8, 2012 by David Sulc

Mozilla’s Popcorn.js enables developers to manipulate content in relation to a video: display/hide elements, manipulate a timeline, or simply execute arbitrary code. The advantage this technique has over simply timing the triggered events, is that it is fully synchornized with … Continue reading →

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