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Custom Flex 3 Lightweight Preloader with source code

Here we will have a demonstration to an age old problem in Flash (and inherited in Flex), the preloader. I think that the Flex community has long ago grown bored with the default preloader, which I am very thankful to Adobe engineers for providing it in the first place. It's just that we keep seeing it over and over and over...

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DRYing up Rails Controllers: Polymorphic & Super Controllers

Controllers are an obvious point to find repeated behavior in an application. Identical methods across many controllers are a very common problem...

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A New Workflow for Web Designers

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. It was Tim Berners Lee’s original vision of the web that online documents be both readable and writable. He notes in his book “Weaving the Web” that he was disappointed with the way the browser […]

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Writing reusable jQuery modules: Make everything a plugin

I recently asserted that open-source plugins are sometimes more trouble than they're worth. Nevertheless, I've found one unexpected benefit of jQuery's plugin mechanism...

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The Changing Landscape of Healthcare Analytics

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Google is at it again. Entire industries have sprung up around their search engine, adwords/adsense universe, and now they are set to do the same thing with healthcare data. One of the major barriers to […]

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You CAN Develop with Loosely Defined Requirements

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. We just opened up a beta site at www.plantcollections.org. I’m the Business Analyst on the project. Wonderful idea, connect all the Plant Kingdom databases into a single repository and let anyone who wants it, access […]

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How to use will_paginate with non-ActiveRecord

will_paginate is very well designed plugin. Besides ActiveRecord object integration, it can integrate with array and any collection that you may have...

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Agile Development and Testing: Unit or Montecarlo?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I’ve had a running debate with my colleague John McCaffrey on the question of testing. He is a big fan of unit testing and testing in general that examines the smallest possible units to be […]

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Spending time with Mozilla prototypes: Weave and Prism

I've spent a bunch of time testing two nascent Mozilla Labs projects recently and thought I'd share my experiences, one awful and one awesome. Failure: Mozilla Weave After casting aspersions on Mozilla's progress in the mobile space yesterday, I thought...

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Use a Task Flow to Show “How do I ___?”

Human Factors & UX

Although task flow diagrams (sometimes referred to as interaction flows, process flows or work flows) are a standard in most IA’s toolkits, it can be confusing for those unfamiliar with this particular tool to know when to start diagramming. When...

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jQuery Form and jQuery UI Tabs Works Well Together

I spent last week holed up writing part 4 of Ajax Overhaul, my series of articles for IBM developerWorks. Aimed squarely at Ajax beginners, the series shows how to progressively enhance Web 1.0 sites with jQuery and Ajax. Each installment...

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Use Case Diagrams

Human Factors & UX

Projects start off at the 60,000 foot level -- the client wants a widget that allows their users to do X, Y & Z -- and need to be brought down to a level of detail where coding can begin....

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