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Joyriding Rails

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Jan 29, 2014. The latest incarnation of Zurb’s Foundation, includes a neat feature called “Joyride”. Which makes it easy to provide users with a tour of your interface:. In order to configure each tooltip, Foundation uses. Marked up with the. At the bottom of your page but inside of the body tag -. Hello and welcome to the Joyride documentation page. /p. Tip location:top;tip animation:fade". It works as a modal too! W(id class button text).

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Hacking the Nike+ FuelBand API

http://fredkelly.net/articles/2012/12/21/nike_fuel.html

British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Hacking the Nike FuelBand API. Dec 21, 2012. This Christmas I was lucky enough to be given a Nike FuelBand. If you’re not familiar with the FuelBand, the basic idea is to track your movement throughout the day, and collect ‘Fuel’ (Nike’s own internal currency). You can compete with your friends to see who can collect the most etc (points can also be collected via other means such as the Nike running app for iOS). File with the following:.

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LAUNCH Hack Hack Hack

http://fredkelly.net/articles/2013/11/11/the_hack.html

British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. LAUNCH Hack Hack Hack. Nov 11, 2013. This weekend I attended the Launch Hackathon. Right here in San Francisco. The event was billed as the largest of its type, with over 1000 hand-selected designers and developers competing for some great prizes, including a grand prize of $1.6k worth of investments and prize money. The event was MC’d by @Jason. Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., Mahalo, and more recently TWiST. This idea quickly “pivoted&rd...

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Developing on OS X Yosemite

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Developing on OS X Yosemite. Oct 19, 2014. Last week Apple officially released OS X Yosemite and I decided it was finally time to switch having had the beta sat on my hard drive for a number of weeks, too afraid to flip the switch. I decided to record the process of setting up a basic ruby development environment for my the benefit of my future self (.and hopefully you, too). Installing OS X 10.10. And go from there. Intended for Mavericks, but m...

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Hack Manchester 2012

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Oct 28, 2012. Is a 24 hour coding event held at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). In the heart of Manchester. The event gave myself and @dannyprout. The perfect opportunity to develop an idea we’d been batting around for a while. The plan was to create an app that would hook into GitHub and allow users to get valuable peer reviews on their coding style etc. The idea sprouted from seeing how Facebook’s own Phabricator. From there, our app...

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LendIt Europe 2016

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Highlights From LendIt Europe 2016. Where platforms and investors come to learn, network and do business. Be the first to know about updates and exclusive discounts. We bring you LendIt Europe in conjunction with the P2PFA, Europe’s premier lending association, for the second year, to deliver our largest European conference to date. Institute for New Economic Thinking. 8 pitches. A room full of investors. 1 chance to change your future. The 2016 PitchIt Finalists. Highlights from LendIt Europe 2015.

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Easy Open Graph Objects in Rails

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Easy Open Graph Objects in Rails. Aug 24, 2012. So I made a Gem. Recently I’ve been working on a couple of Rails apps in which I have needed to add Open Graph. Meta tags in order to map objects within my app onto Facebook’s social graph. This is done by simply adding. Tags to your document defining specific properties such as. Etc Here is an example taken from Facebook’s tutorial. Http:/ fbwerks.com:8000/zhen/cookie.jpg". The Turducken of Cookies".

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Multi Column Lists using jQuery

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Multi Column Lists using jQuery. Jul 7, 2010. Recently, I’ve been working on a project that features a three column ordered list in its main content area. Previously I would have probably built this as three separate. The solution in this article looks something like this:. Tidying up with some jQuery. Is mega simple, it just loops through the list applying negative margins based on how many columns you want. For example:.

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Super Simple Cache Busting

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British Computer Science graduate. Lost in Silicon Valley. Super Simple Cache Busting. Nov 2, 2010. If you’re not familiar with cache busting. It is basically the idea of preventing browsers from caching your site’s CSS/JS. This is normally achieved by assigning a meaningless query string to your. By adding a random string, i.e. The browser is tricked into downloading a fresh copy of the file each time the page loads instead caching it. This PHP snippet lets you do just that:. Get the file's timestamp.