I wanted to tell a story but realized I needed some background as to why it’s funny. I blogged about these once before, albeit very briefly. I thought I’d tell the story. It started a long time ago when I had an awesome job working at a student housing apartment complex. One of my coworkers [...]
Archive | 2008
Leopard LoadError: no such file to load — sqlite3
I’m not quite sure why this happened, but I kept getting this error with Leopard and sqlite3: LoadError: no such file to load — sqlite3 I tried to gem install and uninstall sqlite3-ruby a few times but that didn’t work out. However, installing from source did. Head on over to the Rubyforge page and download [...]
Introduction to Podcasting
I did this talk at Blog Orlando 3 and thought some people might find this useful. Feel free to share and get in touch with me if you have any questions or comments. Podcasting Basics Download PDF Podcasting Links Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide: This is an excellent guide by Dan Benjamin Rails Envy Podcast (Shameless [...]
Innovation in Ruby
Just got done doing a presentation with Gregg Pollack at the Ruby Hoedown. The talk was on Innovation in Ruby in the last year. You can grab a cheat sheet over on the Rails Envy web site.
Backpack Ruby Script
Each week I edit the Rails Envy podcast. We use Backpack to work together on the stories each week. Each story is a note in the Backpack page: Today while I was preparing the post, I remembered that Backpack had an API. A quick google turned up the Backpack API page with a link to [...]
I’m Batman
Ok, I normally wouldn’t do this but this was so funny I had to post it. If you know where this came from please leave a comment.
Hpricot and utf-8
I tried to use Hpricot to parse a page with special characters in a utf-8 encoding. The docs tell you to do this: require ‘rubygems’ require ‘open-uri’ require ‘hpricot’ doc = Hpricot(open("http://url/")) However, this won’t give you the output you want. The open method on Open-URI leaves the output in the default character set [...]
Unobtrusive Javascript
In January, I gave a presentation at the Orlando Ruby Users Group about unobtrusive javascript. I figured that I’d reproduce it here for anyone who wanted to watch it. Some topics covered in the video include semantic markup, benefits of coding unobtrusively, examples, and guidelines. Special thanks to Gregg Pollack for editing the video, and [...]
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