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James Golick

James Golick is an engineer, entrepreneur, speaker, and above all else, a grinder.

As CTO (or something?) of BitLove, he scaled FetLife.com's traffic by more than an order of magnitude (and counting).

James spends most of his time writing ruby and scala, building infrastructure, and extinguishing fires.

He speaks regularly at conferences and blogs periodically, but James values shipping code over just about anything else.

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attribute_fu and jQuery shake hands

Apr 03 2008

This blog has been quiet of late, because I'm working on a couple of exciting, but still top-secret projects. Anyway, I recently moved one of those projects over to jQuery, because of its speed, syntax, and general awesomeness. Tonight, when I went to create a multi-model form with attribute_fu, I was stopped dead in my tracks by its heavy dependency on prototype. A few minutes of hacking later, a_f and jQuery are playing rather nicely together.

Get it from the jquery branch of a_f's git repo. If you aren't using git yet, this might be just the excuse you need to check it out! Or, download a tarball from github. After you install the plugin, you'll have to copy its one javascript dependency (jQuery templates) from the javascripts directory over in to your public/javascripts and require it in your layout.