It has only been a month since we announced the acquisition of tinyHippos by RIM. But what a great month it has been! We’ve had a great time getting comfortable in our new environment and have had the pleasure of working with some really awesome people here. Today, we are very pleased to announce that [...]
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Programming operations asynchronously in client-side JavaScript can make life a lot easier. Lately, I found myself wondering what async truly means in this case, did some investigations and figured it would be worth mentioning.
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These days, if you search around the web even a little, you will eventually come across many examples, tutorials, code snippets, libraries and more on JavaScript (i.e EMCAScript). Unfortunately it being a very flexible and easy to learn language, a good bunch of it is is not an ideal example of good practices. Then again a lot [...]
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A while back I did a small post on parsing HTML/XML files and extracting the ids and classes into a generated CSS file. I finally got around to refactoring and packaging it into a ruby gem. This can help you rapidly prototype your markup without having to write the CSS at the same time. Use [...]
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There are only so many hours in the day but finally we have collected all the Ripple documentation and centralized it. If you have been checking the community website recently you may have already noticed the Docs tab, which linked to an initial release. Since then we have been adding on more and more. What [...]
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For the past months I have been following the development of a very interesting text editor called Redcar. Redcar was created by Daniel Lucraft and since then it has started to grow with community contributors, features and plugins. Redcar currently: Supports TextMate bundles, snippets and themes. Has a low barrier of entry (and even lower…) for plugin [...]
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Lately we have been working diligently on getting the Ripple Community website up and running. A daunting task in itself, not to mention alongside launching our flagship product The Ripple Emulator into Beta! Our ideal goal was to find a solid and easy way to integrate a solution that could help save a lot of [...]
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Recently I have been working on a Rails app hosted on our deployment server (Heroku) and trying to get ActionMailer and Ruby working with Gmail’s SMTP service. The one catch is you need to use the TLS protocol and prior to Ruby 1.8.7 (Rails 2.3+) you need to write your own wrapper. Heroku (still using [...]
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