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Sparkmasterflex | blog about HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails, and even PHP - Part 3
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Destroying human interactions, one webapp at a time. Motivation: The Elusive White Whale. We’ve all been there, we find ourself wanting to work on one of our brilliant ideas in our spare time but often we open the laptop, setup the project and then the motivation just fizzles away. Why? Where does the excitement go? For me, first starting in Ruby on Rails, I spent all my time […]. Ruby on Rails: Flash Messages and NotifIt. Steel City Ruby 2014. A Better World with Grunt.js. GruntJS has become a indispens...
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Awesomely Easy Push/Slide Menus | Sparkmasterflex
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Awesomely Easy Push/Slide Menus. I recently added a push menu to an application at my day job and I was amazed at how easy it was to implement. So I thought I would write a quick post on how to build such a menu. I’m also going to throw in a slide over top menu for no additional cost. That’s just the kind of nice guy I am. Things were getting out of hand. Icon/link that expands out a menu when they are ready for it? Nothing Fancy… OK, a Bit Fancy. To start with you can get the code on my gitHub. Doctype ...
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Singing a Ruby on Rails Ditty with Sinatra | Sparkmasterflex
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Singing a Ruby on Rails Ditty with Sinatra. Today I want to go over how to use Sinatra as a lite version of Ruby on Rails. We’ll be going over how to setup Bundler, ActiveRecord and the Assets Pipeline in Sinatra. 8220;Why not just use Rails then? This post assumes that you have Ruby and RubyGems already installed on your computer. If you’re using osX, I recommend that you do this through RVM. Search page for “Homebrew”). I highly recommend installing Ruby = 2.1, because it is much fa...In your favorite ...
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sandbox | Sparkmasterflex
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Rome Total War 2 Campaign Map. Awesomely Easy Push/Slide Menus.
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about | Sparkmasterflex
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Like a lot of programmers, I’m quite the cat person with two cats Attila and Eeyore. I’ve been married to my wonderful wife for 5 years. We both very much enjoy traveling and have been to numerous countries and plan to visit many more.
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Sparkmasterflex | blog about HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails, and even PHP - Part 2
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Destroying human interactions, one webapp at a time. My First Marketable Product. At the beginning of this month I released Marx.js into the wild. It’s a small JavaScript plugin that populates a control panel for the user to easily fill out web forms with random data, which includes Marx brothers’ names, characters, movies and quotes. It was my first real open source project release and I was […]. Marxjs – Web Developer’s Best Friend. The Very Best Ruby on Rails Workflow – Ever! If you’re making a ...
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Ruby on Rails Seeding Like a Boss | Sparkmasterflex
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Seeding Like a Boss. One of the most time consuming aspects of building and testing Rails applications is having valid and usable data in development. This is where the. File comes into play. It’s a wonderful feature of Ruby on Rails that makes testing workflows and data saving, editing and manipulating easier. Seeding your Rails application gives you a place to start. So what do we mean by seeding? This will read our. File and run the ruby code within it. We just use the ActiveRecord method. We need to ...
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In my Absence | Sparkmasterflex
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Hello all. I know I haven’t posted anything in a while and I apologize. I’ve gone through a bit of a transition recently, both personally and professionally, all for the best I assure you. So where was that silver lining? I believe my exact words to myself were: Why not? After a phone call, take home Rails exercise and a video chat/peer programing session, they offered me the job. I asked my wife one final time Are you sure you’re up for this? And she was. It all suddenly became real. Seeding Like a Boss.
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Sparkmasterflex | blog about HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails, and even PHP - Part 7
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Destroying human interactions, one webapp at a time. HTML5/CSS3 “Need to know” – part 2. HTML5 and CSS3 – all I know in one dose Jump to: Gradient Backgrounds Text-shadows Shadows Rounded Corners Useful Pseudo Classes Keyframes (pure CSS3 animation) Resources Where to begin? There are so many exciting new things that you can do with CSS3 that I can barely contain myself just thinking about them. Gradients Background Gradients! My ‘need to know’ of HTML5 and CSS3.
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