matt dillon

Mobile Email

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:40:00 +1300

Good guides over at Campaign Monitor. And MRPATTO has a nice collection of resources.

More resources:
Litmus Blog

Yahoo! Mail gotya (use attribute selectors to get around it). See here…

Charles Hawthorne Art Quotes

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:19:09 +1300

Charles Hawthorne Art Quotes

Dreaming Ruby Code

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:15 +1300

Friday morning about 5am, after a late night of coding, I woke up dreaming ruby. Well, that’s a first. The good news is that my dream actually helped me fix my code (that’s another first).

So, what was the issue? A multi-step form which is saved immediately after the first step.

What was the solution? Initially, I tried out ryanb’s multi-step form (no saving after the first step), but that wasn’t what I was after. I turns out there’s a nice little gem - gem “stepper”. It adds a current_step field to the table you’re working with, but I can live with that.

All good!

simple_nested_form_for - awesome

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:34:00 +1300

I love simple_form. Big ups to the plataformatec guys (get it here). It makes writing forms in rails a breeze. Great control and really easy to style up.

I also love ryanb’s nested_form. Again, it makes complex forms so much easier to create.

Today I had the need to use both simple_form and nested_form. And how awesome is this: simple_nested_form.

It’s shit like this that makes my day.

http://prespective.tumblr.com/post/scorekeeper

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:21:00 +1300

http://prespective.tumblr.com/post/scorekeeper:

Prespectives – Sean Whipps – Scorekeeper

“Absolutely brilliant. This is a perfect example of creating a parallel of great interaction and imaginative design - between the icons-as-function and menu, the whole app feels so natural and focused.”

Rock climbing & jquery.multi-select.js

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:06:00 +1300

After years of being intrigued by Ferg’s Rock and Kayak, I’ve finally climbed the wall. Again, big ups to Adventure Wellington for organising (meetups is a wonderful thing). 10 minutes to show us the ropes (pun intended) and then we we’re let loose! As a first timer, I’m pretty chuffed at getting up and over a couple of overhanging walls. Choice.

Earlier in the day, I found the nicest looking multi-select jquery plugin. jquery.multi-select.js by (frenchman?) Louis Cuny was easy to add to a Rails 3.1 project I’m in the middle of, and, best of all, it looks really nice. I like.

Good job Lou (fork him on Github).

Adventure Wellington - Wellington Zoo

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:17:00 +1300

We’ve recently joined this fantastic meetup group. A good bunch of people from all over the place: kiwis, brits, canadians, yanks, serbians, australians… Mostly, we’ve been going to the walking meetups but last Friday night was a sleepover at the zoo. 60 adults partaking in kids activities at the zoo. Awesome.

Without a doubt, the hilight of the event was getting up close to the lions.

Other hilights were the new meerkat enclosure (and catching a good look at a new baby meerkat just a few days old) and the blue-tounged lizard.

Good on you Adventure Wellington. Good times!

Matiu/Somes Island - Boxing Day 2011

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:58:00 +1300

Matiu/Somes Island - Boxing Day 2011

A sketch of Oliver our departed and loved moggie.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:05:00 +1300

A sketch of Oliver our departed and loved moggie.