For a project i’m working on i needed to serialize a number of arrays before they could be saved and since i don’t like to serialize and un-serialize all those arrays in each controller action, i wrote a behavior to take care of this.
It serializes all array data before it is saved into the database and when you do a find it will unserialize all data(including related model data).
Yet another CMS has come to live, this time it’s the markup factory.
Markup Factory is the revolutionary web publishing platform for today’s web designer.
Together, designers and website managers can use Markup Factory to quickly produce and publish accessible, feature-rich websites.
Ajaxian writes that google now hosts a couple of Ajax libraries like Prototype and jQuery.
Google makes shure it is the latest version and has the right header settings and compression.
Markitup is a new web editor (not a wysiwyg editor) that not only looks really nice, but also works really well. check it out.
CSS Type Set is an online tool to check out different font settings. One window shows the result and the other window shows the relevant css code, very neat!
PureEdit, Making content management purely simple.
“PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you’ll find elsewhere.”
It looks really nice and i’m defenately trying this one out.
Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy to setup, browse, and track Subversion. Beanstalk has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, and more. It’s really easy to use :)
Chris Heilmann tought of a really clever way to show code in blog posts with ajax. I am definitely using this next time!
Alex has written a brilliant post about the formula for designing a successful website.
Simple to understand and execute. check it out!
