How to do Ajax style drag-n-drop sorting with Rails

Here is a quick tutorial on how to do this. The “secret” or easy solution is to use Rails “acts_as_list” plugin. 1. Install the “acts_as_list” plugin that is going to be used for this. With Rails 2.0+, the plugin is no longer part of Rails core, so you will need to do “ruby [continue...]

Beginner FLTK Tutorial

Who is this article for? This article is for C++ programmers who wish to start coding GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications using FLTK. The documentation of FLTK is very good. However, I found the tutorial examples went from very easy (Hello World) to a little too diffucult (editor.cxx). [continue...]