Animation Chains with jQuery

Using the animate() function built into the core jQuery library, you can generate complex, multi-step movement or visual effects using any element on your Web page. No Flash or Silverlight is needed, just the CSS and JavaScript capabilities built into your browser. The secret to complex animations is jQuery’s ability to “chain” multiple functions together to apply actions sequentially. Read on to learn how it’s done.

Build 42 Released

Here is a summary of this release: Yesterday I deployed build number 42 to my DreamHost server. Everything was broken, so I rolled back to build 31. Everything was still broken. Today, I re-deployed 42 and everything works again. So, what happened?

Secrets of Links in Rails

Rails provides a handy method for creating a link in your views:

link_to "Home Page", "http://gridworlds.com"
=>  <a href="http://gridworlds.com">Home Page</a>

Of course, if this were all the link_to() method did, there would be little reason to use it instead of just typing the HTML directly.

Build 31 Released

What’s been happening with GridWorlds lately? Another three months have passed since the last update, and while I’m not trying to do quarterly releases it seems to be happening unintentionally. This release brings a fairly major architectural change to GridWorlds, which partially explains the delay.

Build 21 Released

After a considerable hiatus since my last update (according to Subversion it’s been almost three months), I finally deployed a new release this morning. This update combines several smaller checkins, but includes some larger features…