Linda's Web Technologies

So I ran into a problem that took me a ridiculously long time to figure out... In fact I didn't really figure it out myself... It took listening to my tutor read the code back to me, before the penny dropped what the problem was.   For ages I was getting the following error SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: name: SELECT "events".* FROM "events" WHERE (name LIKE '%f%') I...

I ran into a problem with the embed code that vimeo gives with their videos.  And although it validates against transitional I really wanted to validated it against strict.... so I came across this great site www.designlessbetter.com which gives a really simple alternative code to use. Instead of using this .. <object width="400" height="302"> <param name="allowfullscreen"...

For this blog project we have to comment and illicit responses - a fairly difficult task even for seasoned hacks.  So I thought I had a great workaround - the project is really about understanding Web 2.0 technologies and to my mind the same technologies are used to create forums as are blogs.  So posting some questions and getting responses on a forum would be a legitimate...

I've followed all the instructions from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html and I've a blog set up, that has a form, allows a user to create a post, comment, edit, add tags, has some security to protect who can post,and edit, delete etc.  Only problem is that when I click delete post, I get the expected message "are you sure?" with the option to continue...

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I've got everything to work..... Rails is up and running, the server seems to be behaving himself, I've created two web pages that link to each other, and on one of the web pages I've embedded some ruby that does some nifty stuff like tell us what time it is now, list all the documents in a directory, do some simple calculations, tell us what time it will be from an hour from...

I watched Wesley install a new Rails app and thought, Wow that doesn't look so hard.  I set about setting up my own application and it seemed to be going swimmingly despite a small sqlite3.dll missing glitch.  I soon rectified that by downloading the missing dll and putting it in the bin directory of my Ruby 192 applicatio...