Using jQuery and Prototype Javascript Together with jQuery.noConflict();
To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
My First Data Visualization McCain V. Obama Election Results
Here is my first data visualization. I used the Processing programming language and an SVG map of the United States.
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Manage Fixtures with Yaml DB Plugin for Rails
Get the plugin like so...
script/plugin install git://github.com/adamwiggins/yaml_db.git
This command will dump your data
rake db:data:dump
And load it back
rake db:data:load
Beautiful :) More info here
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2007/11/23/yam...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Enable IFrame Support on Heroku with Ruby on Rails and Sinatra
This actually has more to do with Rails and/or Sinatra than it does with Heroku. You have to enable IFrame support in your headers explicitly.
With Rails you can add this to your config/application.rb file
config.action_dispatch.default_headers = ...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/25/2013
How To Create Blurry Background Images Programmatically from the Command Line or with Ruby
Turn this
into this
You can use ImageMagick to make blurry images.
To install with Homebrew on OS X.
brew install imagemagick
After installing you can run from the command line
convert yourimage.png -channel RGBA -blu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013
