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Cancel Forms And Avoid The If Then Statements

Greg DeVore — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:31:29 +0000

One of the big pains with Rails form helpers is that they don't have a cancel button. No, problem - that is easy enough to add in. Just use a second submit tag like so: <%= f.submit "Create" %> [...]

ScreenSteps Live: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails - Part 2 - Figuring Out the Code

Greg DeVore — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:42:08 +0000

In my last post about developing ScreenSteps Live with Ruby on Rails (which was far too long ago) I talked a lot about what led to me getting started with Rails development. In this post I want to talk about what were some of the things about Ruby and Rails that I found really [...]

Filtering Feeds from NetNewsWire For Your iPhone

Greg DeVore — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:20:38 +0000

This will show you how to quickly customize the feeds you receive in NewNewsWire on your iPhone. I got the original instructions here. [...]

ScreenSteps Live: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails - Part 1

Greg DeVore — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:00:12 +0000

At Blue Mango Learning Systems we primarily develop two applications: ScreenSteps Desktop Software: This is developed for Mac and PC. Trevor handles all of this and uses Runtime Revolution as his development environment. ScreenSteps Live: This is our hosted compliment to ScreenSteps Desktop. It is all coded in Ruby on Rails and I handle all [...]

A Little Revolution Does A Developer Good

Trevor DeVore — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:25:31 +0000

Round here we develop all of our desktop applications using Revolution. I recently attended the RunRevLive 08 conference in Las Vegas where one of the speakers was Robert Cailliau, the co-developer of the web. Robert spoke on “Programming systems and the birth of the Web”. Following a very interesting presentation on how the web came [...]

A Little Help Please

Trevor DeVore — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:26:15 +0000

Over the last few weeks we have been shifting the primary focus of ScreenSteps Live to manuals. In doing so we have been looking at ways to easily integrate the manuals you create into a variety of different applications. One feature we recently added was the ability to fetch a list of manual lessons that has [...]

Apple iPhone: Solving the Innovator's Dilemma or Swimming in a Blue Ocean?

Greg DeVore — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:53:03 +0000

Charlie Wood at Moonwatcher has a post asking "Why Doesn't Apple Face the Innovator's Dilemma?". Looking at the success of the iPhone with the Innovator's Dilemma/Solution outlined in Clayton Christensen's excellent books doesn't really tell the story of the iPhone. The Innovator's Dilemma/Solution is a framework for analyzing market reactions to technology innovation. [...]

New ScreenSteps Blog

Greg DeVore — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:21:28 +0000

Just wanted to let anyone who follows this blog and is interested in ScreenSteps information that we have launched a new ScreenSteps blog at www.screensteps.com/blog . We will be posting ScreenSteps and ScreenSteps Live related information there from now on so we invite you to come on over and subscribe.

ScreenSteps 2.0.4 Released and Post to Basecamp Screencast

Greg DeVore — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:18:47 +0000

You can download the latest version here: http://www.screensteps.com/downloads Or check out the release notes here: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/download/screensteps/20/release/releasenotes.txt Post to Basecamp Screencast We just posted a screencast that demonstrates how you can use the new "Export to Blog" feature and a "Basecamp" template to post ScreenSteps Lessons to Basecamp (Note: you must have a ScreenSteps Live account). ... Screencast:http://screensteps.com/screencasts/posttobasecamp/ Basecamp Blog Template: http://screensteps.com/downloads/templates/screensteps_2/

ScreenSteps 2.0.3 Released and New Screencast from ScreenCastsOnline

Greg DeVore — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:27:54 +0000

If you are interested in seeing a great review of the new features check out this screencast produced by Don McAllister at ScreenCastsOnline . If you have seen any of his screencasts you know what an incredible job he does and he definitely doesn't disappoint this time.