Category Archives: Andrew C’s Blog

October North West Spring User Group Meeting

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

Last Tuesday was the North West Spring User Group. I was asked to deliver my jQuery talk that I gave to the South Spring User Group back in September last year. It’s always good talking about jQuery as it’s relatively … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready to Rumble

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

This year I have entered the Rails Rumble. I am entering as a Solo developer and will be competing with over 200 teams of up to 4 people. For those of you who don’t know what the Rails Rumble is, … Continue reading →

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RIA Community Leader at Skills Matter

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

Some of you may know that I teach the 4 day Core Ruby on Rails Course which includes BDD with Cucumber. After delivering a passionate course I was invited to be the Web & RIA Community Leader at Skills Matter, … Continue reading →

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Vertically Aligning Images with jQuery

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

I have often needed the to fulfil the requirement of aligning an image to the middle of a specified height. In the old table based way of doing it was pretty easy. All you needed to do was valign=”middle” on … Continue reading →

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jQuery Presentation at the Spring User Group in London

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

Here is the presentation I gave on jQuery at the Spring User Group in London. Q&A session for the whole event is at the end. Some people attended the Spring event because of the jQuery talk. Bonus!!

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Variety Club on Rails

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

I was tasked to provide additional functionality to the Variety Club site administrative suite. The additional functionality includes an online booking system for events using Google Checkout as the payment service provider and help volunteers manage these bookings and event … Continue reading →

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A Week of Web Releases

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

It’s been an exciting week on the web front with jQuery 1.2.6 and Ruby on Rails 2.1 being released, both providing feature enhancements and performance improvements. Here is a brief run down: jQuery Event Handling is 103% Faster CSS Selectors … Continue reading →

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Brand New Site Around the Corner

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

When I’ve had a spare hour or two between projects I have been working on the brand-spanking new cake site. It will have some smooth UI tweaks thanks to jQuery and pretty interesting features on the contact page with integrated … Continue reading →

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Learn@Cake: Introduction to AJAX

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

Every Wednesday at Cake we have sessions where one of us has the opportunity to present an emerging technology. Today was my turn. With my experience in AJAX and all things Web 2.0 it was the natural choice to give … Continue reading →

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Platform 4 Widget Contest Runner Up

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley

Back in December I read a post on TechCrunch UK about Channel 4 launching a competition at the Widgety Goodness conference in Brighton. The contest was to create a widget using at least one Film 4 feed and a feed … Continue reading →

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