Small Update

The calendar view is getting along pretty well. Here is the latest output. It is still missing a lot of things (eventing for one), but I am getting there.

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Sprout-calendar

I just started a repository on GitHub to create a framework for Sproutcore that would bring a calendar view to the existing view palette. I have the following specs currently:

  • Display full month with day headers and month headers
  • Have a fully customizable day item
  • Be able to display more than a calendar at a time (number of rows + columns)
  • Have actions on the click of days
  • Selection of multiple days (drag enabled)
  • Be able to specify which days can be selected or not
  • Be able to display a month or a week alone

That covers it from my side for GetOutAndRock.com . What about you? Do you have anything to add?Take a look at the repository (http://github.com/juggy/sprout-calendar/tree/master) as I will populate it as I go. 

Sproutcore

I have this idea of a social event planner to spot the perfect date for parties and vacations. I started in Rails with all handcrafted HTML+CSS+JS trio and it really is a pain.I played around with Sproutcore recently and fell in love. This javascript framework reminds me of my days as a desktop application programmer and I love it. So I decided to build my event planner, GetOutAndRock.com, using this brand new framework.Stick around as I will be blogging a lot about this in the coming days/weeks/months. This and the integration with Rails. 

A working (yes, hard to find) Combo Box script with Rails plugin (and a very long post title)

So this is my first post on this page. It happens that it is also my first Rails plugin ever that I am going to talk about.

I hand crafted for the benefit of all a small Prototype enabled javascript file for handling combo boxes. What i mean by combo box? I mean something similar to a text field, but with suggested entries. I personally use it for allowing the user to create new entries or use existing one.

The basic example is a blog category. You want the user to be able to pick a previously defined category, but also create new ones as they go.

So this plug-in is all about that. Fun huh ? and by the way, it is called Combobox-helper. I don’t know if some other plug-in has the same new and frankly speaking, I don’t care.

You can get it here: http://jguimont.com/combobox_helper

Enjoy! If you happen to use it productively, drop me a line so I can have a look and tell my friend (I should maybe add a ’s’ to friend to make like I have more than my dog) and brag about it.