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Comment on Turning Your Macbook Into a Better Ebook Reader by News and Weblog — infiniteNIL Software

News and Weblog — infiniteNIL Software — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:33:55 +0000

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Comment on Conversion Optimization: Tracking Form Validation Errors with Google Analytics by Caroline Jarrett

Caroline Jarrett — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:40:48 +0000

Great article. It shows how even a ’standard’ question like an address can cause problems for a different audience.

Thanks
Caroline

Comment on Conversion Optimization: Tracking Form Validation Errors with Google Analytics by Anil

Anil — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:09:11 +0000

Great Post. Form validations are one of the leading causes of conversion loss and most of the time it gets undetected. See my blog post on the same subject, http://webanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/are-form-validations-invalidating-your.html

Comment on Conversion Optimization: Tracking Form Validation Errors with Google Analytics by Les Faber

Les Faber — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:44:14 +0000

Well done! Very insightful post. I was actually wondering how to track these types of errors. Not with the Indian addresses. But just online form abandonment.

Much appreciated!

Comment on dMix Redesigned, Contrastream Shutting Down and Joining LearnHub by John Philip Green

John Philip Green — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:27:26 +0000

2010 will be a great year! Looking forward to lots of work together on LearnHub & JumboTests.

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Comment on WeeklyBuilder: A weekly calendar plugin for Rails by Anything you like for making appointments ? – Afraha ! The Next Big Thing!

Anything you like for making appointments ? – Afraha ! The Next Big Thing! — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:41:19 +0000

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Comment on Simple Live Validations in Rails by Christoph Olszowka

Christoph Olszowka — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:24:34 +0000

@Dan: Oh yeah, you’re right – I mixed that up with periodically_call_remote!

Comment on Simple Live Validations in Rails by Dan McGrady

Dan McGrady — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:20:32 +0000

@BrianTheCoder: I definitely plan on refactoring it to minimize the amount of data that rails is returning and let Javascript handle the rest.

@Oliver: thanks, we actually used something similar in another method (User.new = valid?), for demonstration I chose the simplest one. The JSON response looks clean.

@Christoph Olszowka: keep in mind it only sends requests if something is typed. If 50 users are on the page, only a fraction of the time is spent typing the username. Although 500 users is another story and would definitely benefit from the refactoring mentioned above.

Comment on Simple Live Validations in Rails by Christoph Olszowka

Christoph Olszowka — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:52:28 +0000

So this will flood your server with 2 ajax requests per form field per user – say you’ve got 50 users on the signup form you’ll have 300 ajax calls per second, even when the users just have the page open and aren’t doing anything. You really should switch that to some on-change-only JS behaviour. I’d use onblur here, which will trigger when the form field is left. Also, I don’t see the point in using a partial for rendering plain text here. I’d switch that to render :text => @message. I’d also make use of :status => 2XX and 4XX and let the JS handle the icon and text color stuff.