Archive for the ‘javascript’ Category

viennastreetstyle.com

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

ViennaStreetStyle

Some days ago my first Rails application went live:

ViennaStreetstyle.com - ViennaStreetStyle is a simple photo gallery showing people on the streets of Vienna, Austria presenting their own style of street fashion.

I developed this application for friends of mine who had the idea for ViennaStreetstyle.com.

Development was quite straight-forward without any kind of a big suprise by using the following plugins/libraries:

  • attachment_fu
    For uploading and handling the images
  • geokit
    for locating the shots on the map of Vienna
  • YM4R
    Greatest plugin for doing all the GoogleMaps stuff
  • prototip
    Javascript library for easy rendering of complex tooltips

The whole system is running on a busy 256 MB VPS under Mongrel with 2 server instances (so in best condition to get slashdotted or sth like that).
But it is somehow an experiment for me how far you can go with that low server specs.

Posted in ajax, capistrano, fun, geokit, javascript, mysql, prototype, rails, ruby, web sightings, ym4r | 2 Comments »

AJAX Rain - Javascript/DHTML repository

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

AjaxRain

 

 

 

AJAX Rain - for me the first place to look at - if I want Javascript magic!

Posted in ajax, javascript, prototype, web sightings | No Comments »

Prototip - Tooltips for prototype

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I was in need for a Javascript ‘Tooltips’ implementation.

My requirements:

  • allow complex HTML as content
  • should be based on Prototype (or no JS fwk - I don’t want to use any other JS libraries if I don’t need to)
  • easy code rendering using Rails 

There are some good implementations out there, but finally I have chosen Prototip.
I think the main reasons were:

  • feature rich
  • well documented
  • plenty of examples
  • tweaking CSS to customize the layout cannot be much more easier

Posted in javascript, prototype | 1 Comment »