Archive for 'Tutorials'
Project Management Tutorial Part 2, First Iteration
Here’s our goals for the first iteration.
Task Database Object
Add Task via Xul Client
It’s small, but it gets us started on all the overhead of both rails and xul.
Project Management Tutorial Part 1, Planning and Design
Luckily/Sadly, there is no pressure for me to complete this on any timeframe, and it’s secondary to the rest of my work, which is far more important. However, a nice diversion is always in order, and helps get my mojo back into my regular programming work. Read on for the rest of this…
Finally found the page I was looking for
I must’ve spent a week looking for this simple page on doing Socket connections in XUL. Thank goodness. I want to set up a jabber client in pure JS and XUL(I want to). I also want to set up a chat room for my new dating site, YNKOdate. Slowly but surely it’s all coming together.
No Part 3 today
No Part 3 on the XulRunner tutorial today. Sorry everybody, just got busy with work. I’ll push for it tomorrow.
XulRunner and Rails Tutorial, Part 2: Connecting the Two
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Two
Today we’re going to Connect Rails to our new XulRunner app. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well….
Let’s start on the Xul side of it. All this XmlHttpRequest stuff is crap. And Ajax is Ajax+J.
Under the xul/content directory, let’s create a new one called “js” to store all of our javascript in, and let’s create another […]
Xul(Runner) and Rails Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction and Setup
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Two
Please Note: I’m not the first to do this. Check out that app, very nifty.
But now I’m going to give it a go.
For this demo app, we’re going to create a simple online forum based in XUL with a Rails backend.
First up, gotta boot up RadRails and start a new project, and we’ll […]
Still Working on The Tutorial
Sorry I’ve been pretty busy with work and travel. My sister is getting married this weekend so I will be out of town again. But as soon as I have some spare time, I will get back to the tutorial. I gotta go, I’m having some friends over for drinks.
Firefox Toolbar Tutorial: Part 1
Since we’re going to be following the Firefox Toolbar Tutorial you should head over there and download the sample .zip file. I’m not gonna re-create the wheel, I’m just gonna add a little more chrome. (Ba-da-bing, bad joke).
In this series of Tutorials, I suggest you head over to the other tutorial first, read that, then […]
Creating a Firefox Toolbar Tutorial
Ok, I’ve needed to do this for quite some time.
I’m gonna go through the Firefox Toolbar Tutorial and post my results and progress here. I’m telling you now, it won’t be something I release to the public, it will be for demonstration purposes only(well, only to the public, it’ll be of good internal use […]