A particular project I’m working on requires graying out options in a drop down box. I discovered the disabled attribute, which can be used as follows:

<select name="range">
    <option value="7">last 7</option>
    <option value="30">last 30</option>
    <option value="60" disabled="disabled">last 60</option>
</select>

Normally you can just write ‘disabled’, but to be valid XHTML, you need the disabled=’disabled’ variant. The point is, this […]

Inheritance using
Additionally, the use of => in Ruby hashes is really nice. When I see something like:

redirect_to :action => "list"

I see an arrow pointing to list, which is where I want that to go. Even in a plain old hash definition the => works well by basically pointing from keys to values.

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I’ve gone years without knowing this. I can do pretty much what I need to do with Vim, but while hacking some Python recently I realized I’d really like to have the ability to select a block of text and repeatedly indent or unindent it. Visual Studio and PSPad make quick work of […]