Session timeout for your Ember application
We ran into an issue with sessions timing out while users were doing client side stuff with an Ember application we’re building. Once the session timed out they could no longer…
-
-
My Morning Coffee
Plenty of us working stiffs here in the United States wake up each morning a bit groggy as we prepare for another day as a cog in the grind. That means coffee is the most widely…
-
If PostGreSQL Won’t Start Remember This
I rarely ever reboot my Mac. It sits on my desk loyally waiting for my next command ready to respond to my every whim. However, on occasion, something happens and it does need a…
-
Heroku Database Tips
Even on Heroku where most of the problems of sys ops is taken care of for you, you will occasionally run into strange database issues that are hard to explain. For me it the…
-
Ember Textfield ignores arrow keys. How to monitor key events in your textfield
Ember provides a text field view that makes generating text input fields pretty simple. What’s really cool is with the simple addition of onEvent=”keyPress” and…
-
Rails on Heroku Notes – some Asset Pipeline and a Frame issue
A tiny Rails asset pipeline thing if you are into bookmarklets This is more a general Rails issue rather than a Heroku issue, but I ran into the problem while deploying to heroku…
-
Rails on Heroku Notes – some Asset Pipeline and a Frame issue
A tiny Rails asset pipeline thing if you are into bookmarklets This is more a general Rails issue rather than a Heroku issue, but I ran into the problem while deploying to heroku…
-
Rails on Heroku Notes – some Asset Pipeline and a Frame issue
A tiny Rails asset pipeline thing if you are into bookmarklets This is more a general Rails issue rather than a Heroku issue, but I ran into the problem while deploying to heroku…
-
Using Chosen with Ember.js
Harvest’s Chosen select control is handy for cleaning up unwieldy or horribly long select boxes. It’s a nice little bit of UI sugar that can help make your users happier and we…
-
Generate Ember.js models using your Rails Schema
I love Ember.js. I hate typing and I especially hate typing code that a machine could build. I got really tired of reading a Rails schema to build new Ember.js models so I create…
-
Don’t miss the ‘.’ – Computed Property that depends on Ember.ArrayController contents
My fun/stupid ember mistake of the day. I even put together a jsbin to help track down the problem. It’s a tiny problem that is hard to spot. Right there at the very end there’s a…
-
Help with Ember.js
So you’ve discovered the most awesome front end javascript framework ever or at least that’s what the cool kids are saying. Now you want so help. Besides StackOverflow here are a…
-
Passing a value to ember.js view from handlebars template
This is one of those things that should be easy and it’s probably obvious to most people but it threw me for a while. I wanted to pass a value into my ember.js view at the moment…
-
Immutable Arrays in Ember.js
I ran into another interesting situation with ember.js today. We make a request to the server to get a collection of objects for the application route. That request sends…
-
Handle Keyboard events in an Ember.js view
We ran into a situation where we wanted to be able to close our ember.js view (a modal) when the user pressed the esc key. At first I thought the solution was easy and I ended up…
-
Building with Ember
We’re currently building a couple of projects for a group at MIT and for a current Techstars company in the Kaplan program which has given us a chance to try out ember.js on real…
-
Picture Utilities
We have a library of almost 100,000 photos. I’m guessing the number is higher if you count the total number that we have backed up for family members. Managing that many photos…
-
Huntsman Awards for Excellence in Education
My mother in law received a Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education this evening – a well deserved honor befitting her work as an educator over the past 16 years. Out of the…
-
Requisite Moved From WordPress to Jekyll Post
I’m not the first one to make the move from WordPress to Jekyll. While I have been a proponent of WordPress in the past I finally grew tired of writing my posts in a tiny little…
-
Requisite Moved From WordPress to Jekyll Post
I’m not the first one to make the move from WordPress to Jekyll. While I have been a proponent of WordPress in the past I finally grew tired of writing my posts in a tiny little…