Presentation on Rails/ActiveRecord Migrations

Posted by Eric Stewart Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:56:00 GMT

It has been announced! I will be presenting about migrations in Rails and ActiveRecord at the December Austin Ruby on Rails User Group meeting.

Robert Rasmussen will talk about putting Ajax goodness into your Rails applications.

Last month was the first meeting and we had a good crowd (pretty full for the meeting space). Come on out and talk Rails with everyone!

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Ruby on Rails and web accessibility

Posted by Eric Stewart Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:27:00 GMT

It so happens that much of the web work I have done in the past (and at present) has had a strong accessibility requirement. Most of the standard accessibility techniques are not difficult, improve usability anyway, and encourage use of standards.

Certainly there are many wrenches to through into the accessibility cogs. Javascript and Ajax are two big ones right now that make things more difficult. But from what I can tell they can be utilized also with careful design (and knowledge of degradation techniques).

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