brite fisher

Learnings for Week 23 2010

* Recently needed to ignore some files that were already being tracked by git. "This Link":http://pivotallabs.com/users/rolson/blog/articles/1278-ignoring-tracked-files-in-git helped me out. ** git update-index --assume-unchanged config/database.yml * HTML5 'type=search' renders a nice search box and degrades to a simple input in older browsers. * HTML5 'placeholder=text' renders placeholder text into an input that goes away when you click into it. * case; when 'one', 'two'; to match 'one' or 'two' in a Ruby case statement. * Rails hide_action :action_name in a controller will prevent the action from being routed to. * jQuery "input" event gets fired when typing, pasting, cutting etc. from an input field. * jQuery live != livequery plugin. Main difference is live can only bind an event handler to the matching elements, livequery can run a function every time another element matches. * "http://www.quickdiff.com":http://www.quickdiff.com super easy online tool to diff text.