debugging ie8 doctype related issues... sounds like fun, right?

Burning Star

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Using Mootools with Ruby on Rails

This one was built and tested, using Rails 2.3.2 and Mootools 1.2.2 I've been playing around with Rails for about two months now and I LOVE it, because they integrate so many best practices for a web developer. The only thing I didn't like was the integration of Javascript. I don't wanna use Prototype/Scriptacolous Both is already built in. I'm not saying these are bad libraries, but I prefer Mootools for my clientside scripting. Rail's Ajax Helpers ain't good JS scripting I don't see any sense in writing javascript code in rails. I want my Javascript unobtrusive and nicely degrading and want to take all benefits of my js framework. At least at this point, I think it's better to write js in a js environment ...

Take Executor beyond application launching

As you can see in my blogroll, I'm a Lifehacker fanboy. And I'm also a fan of application launchers, because I think, they can increase the speed of your workflow ...

Relaunch 2008

Hi everybody, as you can see, Burning Star is getting relaunched these days. Besides the better embedding of services like  Twitter, Flickr and OpenID (in the comments) the main change is ...

Tierfreundliche Terms of Use

Diese Nutzungsvereinbarung für die Verwendung von ExtTLD, welches es erlaubt, Komponenten des Javascript Frameworks Ext JS relativ komfortabel mit der Java-Plattform J2EE zu nutzen, enthält einige äußerst lobenswerte, wenn auch ...

Eigene Icons für iPhone Web-Clips

Ein kleiner Tipp für alle Interessierten: Seit dem Update auf Firmware-Version 1.1.3 kann man nun auf dem Home-Bildschirm von iPhone und iPod-Touch auch Links zu Websites als Icons speichern, sogenannte Web-Clips, ...