I’ve been using this little snippet quite often for our Rails applications, so I thought I’d share it. It uses minimal code to output the flash[:notice] and flash[:error] messages in colors correlating to their purpose and then fades them away.
Here’s the CSS used followed by the Erb code I use in my layout:
Barefoot is looking to add another member to our team. Posting on 37Signals job board below:
Barefoot is looking for a Senior Application Developer: Rails.
Found this slick little app for validations, Validator S.A.C. I generally would use the one built into FireFox’s Web Developer toolbar or FireBug, but they don’t work for websites running locally. To validate local sites, I would have to go to W3C’s validation website and copy n’ paste my local code. Now I can open this little app with a quick Spotlight keystoke and drag n’ drop files directly on it to validate. They can even be dragged directly from my TextMate sidebar. Cheers to Chuck Houpt!
A List Apart’s now annual, Survey For People Who Make Websites is now out. If you’re one of those people that has any hand in the process of building a site, please take it. The results of their inaugural survey last year were very interesting and I am looking forward to seeing this year’s.
Google just introduced Doctype, a new wiki-style encyclopedia by web developers, for web developers. Looks to be a valuable resource, and has been added to my personal bookmarks. I especially like that they list browser compatibility for all of the CSS properties.
Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
Google Doctype is 100% open.
- Open source
- Open content
- Open to contributions from anyone
Making us nerds look a little cooler…
