http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog Web Entrepreneur Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:09:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm working on a web application outside of my FamilySearch work that requires a lot of AJAX behavior. I have been using Prototype with Rails' Prototype Helpers, but this is beginning to become a unwieldy. The content I load can get very large with TONS of inline JavaScript, so in an effort to ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2009/08/unobtrusive-javascript-on-dynamic-content.html This is my list of genealogy industry people I follow in Twitter: Ancestrydotcom - Ancestry.com geni - Geni.com familylink - FamilyLink.com paulballen - CEO FamilyLink.com snickle22 - President of FamilyLink.com jkericson - FamilyLink.com Yvette_Arts - FamilyLink.com whitter1 - FamilyLink.com amyrhoads - FamilyLink.com radpace - FamilyLink.com DavidLifferth - Former President at FamilyLink.com rootsmagic - RootsMagic.com jslade - Yology.org - Ruby illyadaddezio - LiveRoots.com hikari17 - CEO/President ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2009/01/genealogy-people-to-follow-on-twitter.html I started using Twitter on the 25th of November, 2008. Before then, I thought Twitter was an immense waste of time. I finally saw the light, joined, and have become a huge fan. Here are a few things I did to help me get hooked on Twitter. 1. Used the Gmail address ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-get-hooked-on-twitter.html This one took me a while to figure out. I have my PATH environment variable set up to include other paths that are also defined by an environment variable. For example, I have Maven set up in the following way: M2_HOME = C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-2.0.9 M2 = %M2_HOME%\bin PATH = %M2%;[a whole ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/12/windows-xp-path-not-interpreting-environment-variables.html I'm working on a long post about Merb, but I figured I'd post a link to MerbCamp videos from the event in October. I was unable to attend, so these videos are really, really nice to be able to watch. It also looks like they were able to stream some of ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/11/in-case-you-missed-merbcamp.html Although I consider myself a pretty tech savvy guy, I'm not as up to date on Internet social life. Today, I updated my status on my Facebook account for the first time ever, and then I thought, Oh, I bet that is what Twitter is really all about. I visited Twitter ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/11/so-this-is-twitter.html You may have noticed that I haven't updated my blog for a while. I've decided that I'm going to try to write more during my lunch breaks. So, what have I been up to? I'm still working for FamilySearch as the Developer Support guy for all public APIs. This has been ... http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/11/selfupdate.html