Just a couple of weeks into being a rails developer, I made the one really, really, really big blunder — I used a find_by_sql in a search page. (Oh, please… stop booing. I was a newbie then.) Now, I’ve realized that I might have to modify the search to add yet another column, and well… [...]
Recently I was trying to find ways to import data from excel spreadsheets into the database in a rails project. We needed to save the data from the client’s excel file into the database. Here’s how it can be done using a rake task.
The file will have to be in CSV format, so you’ll have [...]
Create a simple countdown timer using javascript and HTML that counts down to an event. This example used in this tutorial counts down to the FIFA world cup 2010.
Yesterday, after looking around Google’s Chrome OS, I felt exactly the way I felt when I got an invite to preview Google’s other big launch this year, Google Wave — underwhelmed. Chrome OS is a work in progress and there’s a long way to go yet, but as of now, it’s little more than a [...]