Recently, I've been playing around with Twitter Bootstrap and it's pretty amazing.
It is pretty full featured and contains a lot of useful components in addition to the basic grid and styling. It even comes with a spiffy icon set.
A site I've been working on requires the display to be right-to-left instead of left-to-right. Who knew there were people who read things backwards?
Ever since the summer, I've taken more of an interest to mobile related things, especially since I switched from a BlackBerry Curve 8330 to an LG Optimus 2X. I went from a phone with, basically, a text only web browser to one that could load mobile sites, pretty nicely.
I remember seeing things like HTML5 Boilerplate and jQuery Mobile, which aim to help make sites more mobile friendly, and thinking that they were pretty neat. I saw a great example of a site that executed the whole mobile thing pretty well — The Boston Globe's website.
Recently, I've run into a situation where I needed to display a datepicker, fully localized.
I modified the jQuery Calendars plugin to do this:
When I say "fully localized", I mean this:
Over the weekend, I hacked together a quick script to tail a file with node.js and nowjs.
The first time I used node, it was back in version 0.4.6 and I had to install npm manually. It was a pain in the ass to get it running at all. At the time, it seemed like npm installed things into some location that node couldn't require from.
That aside, I decided to give it another shot. Mainly because it's been known to be awesome for many reasons.
My previous post showed how much of a mess my ruby and gem setup was. It might be a good idea to clean it up, but for now, I've found a temporary solution.
Create a new environment using RVM.
Here are the commands I used to install everything...this is more for reference because this isn't the first time I've done it.