On the Path

The Weblog of Codesherpas.com

JQuery scrollTo + HTML5 not working in IE


7 months ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
I had an issue today using the scrollTo JQuery library with html5. Everything worked perfectly on Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but wouldn't work at all on...

Have a Relationship with your Customers


7 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
I have been a customer of Tivo for a long time; I first saw one at a friend's house in the fall of 1999, and bought one for myself that Christmas. Over...

Small Issue with the Asset Pipeline


8 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
This is a small complaint about Rails 3.1, but its one I'm surprised I'm able to make at all. If you have been following the evolution of Rails, you know...

Power of the Command Line


8 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
I was just doing some routine maintenance on our servers when I had to use some command-line judo so solve a small issue and thought I'd share it. Not for...

Programmers Who Launch


10 months ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
My dad is a Vietnam Vet. He doesn't talk much about his war experiences, but one thing he did tell me is that there are two types of soldiers. Those who...

An Open Letter to Restaurant Owners


10 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
Dear Restaurant owner, I want to eat at your restaurant, but I need to find you first. You need a website. And not just any website. It has to work on a...

What is Crowdsourcing?


10 months ago by Karen Gillison on On the Path.
We’ve all see the online CAPTCHAs that make you type in a pair of garbled words to prove you’re not a spam-bot. What you might not know is that by doing...

Rails3 and FullCalendar


10 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
Fullcalendar is an impressive calendar widget for JQuery, showing you events on a month, week, or day view, and letting you drag them around to reschedule...

RESTful Search


10 months ago by Arild Shirazi on On the Path.
Last night we capped off a great weekend at RubyNation 2011 with a wrap-up dinner (thanks Dr. Nic!). I'm proud that so many CodeSherpas had a hand in putting...

Beautiful Visualization


10 months ago by David Bock on On the Path.
Last night we performed some upgrades and restarted a server with nearly a year of uptime. This morning I was checking on the status of the server, and...