Archive for August, 2006

Solar 0.23.0 Released

Saturday, August 26th, 2006 (11:49)

This release of Solar includes new Prototype and Scriptaculous (“Protaculous” ;-) Ajax support in the form of view helpers, ext/json compliant JSON support, and a new plugin-aware Markdown engine. Read on for more.

Birthday Dinner

Friday, August 4th, 2006 (16:42)

My good friend Benito recently treated me to a spectacular birthday dinner (a week in advance of the occasion I might add). Dude, thanks again; that ribeye, and the fresh Brandy Boy tomato off the vine, was just stunning. And the wine! Mmm mmm.
This reminds me of one of my favorite dumb [...]

Solar and TypeKey Authentication

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 (15:10)

The latest release of Solar has full support for TypeKey authentication. Read on for more about Solar authentication processing in general, and how easy it is for Solar to use TypeKey as an authentication source.

Protaculous in Solar

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 (10:16)

Clay Loveless has started adding Prototype/Scriptaculous support in Solar as a series of view helpers. Although I’ve been calling it this in my notes for months, I wanted to share with the world my shorthand for this library combination: “Protaculous.” That is all. :-)