A little birdie told me that Godaddy supports Ruby On Rails Applications. This little birdie, however, did not sing me the whole song. Soon after, I was on the phone with Godaddy support to see if we could get a demo app up and running. No such luck! While ROR is supported, unfortunately Godaddy support staff is totally clueless on how to get it to work. I set about troubleshooting and this is what I found.
I’ve just recently taken some interest in the AppleScript language. Even though the language itself is somewhat anemic, it gives access to scripting some really good software. Safari, iTunes, Photoshop, and Mail to name a couple.
As a web developer, I found myself testing out the shell scripting interface right away.
The old Suckerfish dropdown menus don’t work anymore. The problem is, of course, that IE7 has found a new way to be incompatible. Some of these menus “stick” now. A user will mouseover. The drop down will appear. The user will then mouseout and the menus do not go away. Here’s a solution that worked for me:
Reclaim target="_blank" functionality in Textpattern. Use new non-deprecated markup: rel="external". Rely on core functionality – no plugins needed. Non technical authors can still use simple, elegant Textile markup.
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