I think it would be better titled “Traits & Qualities of the Best Developers ON A DESERTED ISLAND”, because you’ve left out any shred of mention about things developers need to be really, truly productive when working IN AN ORGANIZATION, especially an organization that also contains non-developers. Some examples might be: able to understand and empathize with the viewpoints and needs of internal stakeholders; able to understand and diplomatically communicate necessary trade-offs (e.g. between performance/maintainability/feature set); able to interact with other people as if you were a human, as opposed to an emotion-free, code-generating robot.

I think you’re also missing some important facets that are necessary to excel even when working only with other developers, such as: able to mentor and train newbs, including being willing to give them some of the hard/fun stuff even though they’ll be slower and not as good as if you’d written it yourself; able to be/become a good architect (assuming they’re not working under a dedicated architect); able to adapt or create tools and processes that improve the group’s workflow.

Not to mention some skills that are important even if you ARE on a deserted island, such as estimation, profiling, and refactoring.

Work in some of these “soft skills” and I think you’ll hit the top of the flagpole and score a nice 1UP.

Waqas :
@Waqas
I am facing the same problem as you were. The XMLHttpRequest.responseText returns image path with body and head tags wrapped around, which is causing problem to display image.

Thanks I figured it out. Following code helped me in getting the clean image src:

var regex = /(]+)>)/ig;
var body = XMLHttpRequest.responseText;
var result = body.replace(regex, “”);
$(’#preview_image’).attr(’src’, result);

thanks Bill for this pretty post.

I am facing the same problem as you were. The XMLHttpRequest.responseText returns image path with body and head tags wrapped around, which is causing problem to display image.

WN :
Forget my previous post, I found the answer, however (using
Jquery 1.2.6) when doing the render :text => ‘public path of image’
from the controller to send the image back to the browser
the url is wrapped between a

 tag.
By removing the 

 tag in the javascript it works.

Can you please re-post, how you removed the head and body tags around the image url?

thanks

I have implemented Bloggity nicely, running rails 2.3.5.

I am able to add a category, but after filling in the new post form along with an asset, i get the following error:

undefined method `user_path’ for #

Please suggest.

Thanks
Priya Saini