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Truglaze Web Design Web Application built with Ruby on Rails

Darren Terhune — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:37:50 +0000

Truglaze.com is a website design I recently did for a client. Built with Ruby on Rails, it consists of a full custom CMS with a Flash Application to showcase all his selected photos from a portfolio component. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Screen Reader Users Usability And Accessibility Survey Results

Darren Terhune — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:53:13 +0000

Webaim has posted a very interesting and very full of information article with results on how disabled people with screen readers view web pages. I was shocked at alot of the results and will be bookmarking the page for future reference forsure. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Advanced Rails Recipes – Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible – Plugin

Darren Terhune — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:09:11 +0000

I’ve updated the previous patch of ElevatedFormBuilder to a Ruby on Rails plugin. You can now install it as a plugin from my github: script/plugin install git://github.com/darrenterhune/elevated_form_builder.git If anyone has any problems just add comments below. Formtastic is far superior than this plugin so you should check that out instead. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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Advanced Rails Recipes – Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible Patch

Darren Terhune — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:49:48 +0000

Update: This patch can now be installed as a rails plugin from my github. I recently committed a patch for the “Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible” recipe found in Advanced Rails Recipes Book. The original recipe was written by Mike Mangino of Elevated Rails. The first time I used the recipe found in the book, [...]

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Securing your email forms using css or php’s ming library

Darren Terhune — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:09:14 +0000

I recently had a coverstation with my teacher from last year Jim Rutherford from Digital Media Minute about securing web forms that have email fields where the email address ends up going to an mail script. I’ve always busted my brain on how to do this. I’ve used math equations, but a bot could just [...]

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Unobtrusive javascript textarea counter using Mootools Event Class and domready Event

Darren Terhune — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:11:36 +0000

Here’s a cool script for using with your applications if you would like to limit the number of characters in a textarea as well as show a user how many characters they have left. I wrote this using Mootools event and domready Event classes. For this to work you’ll need to have Mootools Event and [...]

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Bearclaw Invitational website

Darren Terhune — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:06:32 +0000

Been pretty busy in the last few weeks. Just finished a new site for a friend, who holds a Mountain Bike contest on Mount Washington Alpine Resort. Used WordPress and a theme from the themes repository that I modified a bunch. Looks pretty cool so check it out! Bearclaw Invitational. (Powered by LaunchBit)