Touring Mechanic

unobtrusive javascript, part 2: maps

eostrom — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:11:35 +0000

In the previous post, I talked about using unobtrusive JavaScript to implement tabs. My next task was to unobtrusively add Yahoo! Maps to my web pages.

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unobtrusive javascript, part 1: tabs

eostrom — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:11:16 +0000

This week I decided to try applying the idea of unobtrusive JavaScript to Touring Machine. My JavaScript has been pretty unobtrusive already, mostly because I just haven’t gotten around to adding much client-side behavior, but I wanted to get an early start on taking the right approach.

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tabs in the dark, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Prototype

eostrom — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:47:36 +0000

Last week’s main project was switching tab libraries.

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Frisxt!

eostrom — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:16:50 +0000

I’m starting this blog as a diary of my daily coding challenges. With luck, I’ll be challenged often enough to keep it interesting, at least to me. No worries so far.

Last night I decided to tackle a long-standing, mildly annoying problem in Touring Machine. When you load the list page in Firefox, you can sometimes see the tabs start out a certain distance apart:

and then move closer together:

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About the Touring Mechanic

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:04:21 +0000

My name is Erik. I’ve been developing web applications for what seems like a long time, and I’m still learning stuff. Lately I’ve been learning by creating Touring Machine, a web application for independent performing musicians (like me!). It’s built in Ruby on Rails and has a slowly increasing selection of whizzy AJAX gadgets.

This blog is where I write about what I’m learning. I’m not an expert on what I write here–by the time I become an expert in something, I’m not interested enough in it to write about it. This blog is mostly a record of the problems I run into, and how I solve them, or don’t.