Trees, Wizards, Hades and the Gang of Four
Its been some time now since the book “Design Patterns” by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides (the so called Gang of Four) was first published, in 1994. Consequently, one need not necessarily be both...
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More About Representing Metadata
We’ve described the basic shape of the relational database schema which we use to represent structural and descriptive metadata in a previous post. When the schema was first designed, we knew that in...
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Appetite for Deprecation
Finding fancy new ways to do things with Ruby on Rails led me yesterday into a dark, panic-ridden forest of ‘what-the-frak-happened-to-my-app!?!?’ What once worked had turned into strange error...
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Pro-grammar Rules
Should there be internal stylesheets (such as the ones used by magazines, journals, newspapers, or the like) for anyone in a department or organization writing code and comments about that code? While...
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Fun with jQuery
Am experimenting with the jQuery library for fun effects on the calendar application. I’m going to be replacing the “show/hide” function with a jQuery.slideToggle() and the AJAX calls for the calendar...
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Back and forth
Working with custom content and custom displays is not easy as pie in the Drupal framework. I’ve been working to get an RSS feed to build in added content to what Drupal calls “nodes.” Nodes are...
View ArticleAEABoston2008: What Inspired Me
My current professional incarnation is something of a career change for me, so before An Event Apart Boston 2008 last week, it had been a long time since I’d been to any professional conferences. But...
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Site Seeing
Victory! Yes, for months my Rails applications have been periodically crashing. No, I didn’t know what to do about the unfortunate and deeply sad state of affairs. After months of work coding several...
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Tracking Projects
Though Basecamp is an excellent use of Ruby on Rails, its interesting design choices can make it difficult for tracking code at the issue level. My brilliant new colleague, Mark Matienzo, pushed to...
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The Most Exciting Thing About Web Standards Is … umm …
As you may have heard, we’re currently in the process of redesigning NYPL.org from the ground up – a huge undertaking that seems to get bigger the deeper we get into it. We in the UX team have taken...
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