Headway

Just wanted to give a quick update, since I promised one :) I haven’t done too well on my 1 hour/night promise. Monday night was spent playing Gears of War and watching Heroes, and then I ended up browsing away at least and hour and a half on Tuesday and then a buddy bought GoW, so I had to play him in some Deathmatch – heh.

I did actually work for a few hours tonight though and I’m trying to make more headway. I can’t believe just how out of it I am with web development. I’m really trying to avoid learning fancy news ways of doing things in lieu of getting something basic working and then tweaking it later (a la Getting Real, UJS, etc.) However, unfortunately, I don’t even know how to do a lot of the basic stuff, especially when it comes to Javascript. So when I come to something that I know “how” to do but can’t write the code for, then I’d might as well learn the Web2.0 way. For instance, tonight I wanted to hide/show a div. That’s really easy, you just toggle a CSS parameter. However, it’s been 4 years or so since I used DOM and I don’t know the CSS parameter (I thought it was “visible:false” but it turned out to be “display:none”). Since Rails 1.1 has Prototype and Scriptaculous baked in, I decided to go that route instead. That’s all well and good, but I sure wish it didn’t take me 30-60 minutes to do something as simple as toggling visibility on a div!!