Helping contributors to help you with 5 simple rules
Helping out in open source projects is easier than ever using systems like git and github. However, you need to ensure that any code sent to you is as easy as possible to merge. On our OPS.js project...
View ArticleDelayed Job missing method in production fixed
A few months ago I had an issue with phusion passenger not starting due to a missing delayed job method. Yesterday I finally got round to figuring out why. Turns out that the delayed job gem was being...
View ArticleIE 8 & 9 CORS support
Those of you supporting users with Internet 8 & 9 but at the same time trying to push the frontiers of technology by using javascript, ajax and cross origin requests (ie CORS) may want to have a...
View ArticleRuby 1.9.3 on Scientific Linux (& Centos)
The default Ruby on Red Hat (Enterprise) based distros is still 1.8.7 which is almost completely unsupported. I don’t like using RVM on production machines since I don’t want to manually update...
View ArticleCoding without coding: announcing the Open PHACTS HTML widgets
What if you could have an element in your web page which is replaced by some HTML depicting some really cool chemistry stuff without having to know a lot about HTML, CSS, Javascript or how the Open...
View ArticleSeeing Triple
The Semantic Web, Linked Data and their modelling language, Resource Description Format (RDF), have been around for over a decade now. It’s been a slow burner and take up by organizations outside of...
View ArticleIE6 is dead, maybe we can move on
Now that IE6, 7 & 8 have been sent to the heavenly software repository(1) it’s maybe time to stop relying on jQuery quite so much and have a look at some of the ‘new’ things which javascript ES5...
View ArticleYou want to do what? There’s an app for that…….
tl;dr I don’t want to write web applications which have code to do everything the world could conceivably want to use it for. I want the web to tell me what other applications can do that thing. The...
View ArticleEmber 1.10
(It’s been a while….) So, a few months after updating to Ember 1.7 in the Open PHACTS Explorer 2 I had a look at what the Ember folks have been up to. The latest release is now 1.10 with 1.11 just...
View ArticleEmber JS Flash Message Alerts
There are lots of ways to do this and some plugins out there (eg aexmachina’s ember-notify and poteto’s ember-cli-flash) but here is my take* on Rails style flash messages for Ember as seen in the Open...
View ArticleWhat exactly happened to LSID?
What exactly happened to LSID? It was a technically sound approach it would seem and one whose failure we would do well to learn more from. Authors: Alan R Williams, eScience Lab, University of...
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