11.4.11

Simple Search Form in Ruby - SQL error no such column name

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...

7.4.11

Validating Vimeo's embed against Strict!

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"...

4.4.11

Difference between forums and blogs

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...