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Getting Started With Google Closure in Sinatra

March 8, 2012 - 3:32 pm

Recently, we’ve been experimenting with Google Closure which includes both a Javascript library and a compiler to optimize your Javascript. Oddly, the getting started tutorial doesn’t include how to setup a project with Closure. I also ran into some issues with the compiler using advanced optimizations with very standard Javascript code. So, how can you avoid all [...]

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Client Side Validations

July 5, 2011 - 5:35 pm

TL;DR Luke Wroblewski did some sweet research on inline validations and found out that people think they are totally awesome. Brian Cardarella implemented that research in the gem client_side_validations. The gem automatically generates lots of client validations based on your rails model validations. I wrote an application showing some of its capabilities and how to [...]

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