Current projects
I am currently working on a dashboard for my life. It will include things like the weather, news, movie release dates, OneBusAway information and other fun stuff. I am building it with rails and mongomapper. I am hoping to hang a screen on my wall and have it powered by a mac mini. Step one is to get it all working.
Other projects: Revisited IMDB and updated it to run again thanks to someone who wanted to use it. The problem with scr... [ Read more ]
Other projects: Revisited IMDB and updated it to run again thanks to someone who wanted to use it. The problem with scr... [ Read more ]
Ruby and divide by zero
No more checking number.nan? || number.infinite?number = (1/0.to_f) #will not error number = 0 unless 1<=>number # will return nil if its infinity or NaN
Busy
Been busy. Started a new job. Gist.com Working on a few different ideas and been living. I hope to post something new soon.
Greasemonkey day1
I just got a G1 phone and I was playing around with google charts. Turns out they do QR bar codes. It turns out that the barcode scanner on my G1 reads the QR. So I made a greasemonkey script that adds the barcode to the bottom of every page. (After the body tag until I figure it out more)
http://deathbyescalator.com/barcode.user.js
I can now just view a site, scan it and bookmark it on my phone.
Db charsets in rails
In case you have set up your db with out utf8 support by default you can change it with active record.
tables = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("show tables;") tables.each{|table| create_table = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("show create table #{table};") unless create_table.fetch_hash["Create Table"].include?("CHARSET=utf8") ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("ALTER TABLE #{table} CONVERT TO CHARAC... <a href="/main/index/db_charsets_in_rails">[ Read more ]</a>
Rpiratebay dead
Like the real site RPirateBay is dead
Sort or in ruby
I am reading the perl cookbook and they are talking about some fun ways to use sort. I like that they are describing sort_by. I read some where that the concept was coded and posted in perl long ago. I wish they had a sort_by wrapper for it. anyway. I was reading that you can use an or statement in perl so if the first two are even sort it by a second value. I never thought of this in ruby.
... [ Read more ]array = [{:name=>"zack",:age=>30},{:name=
Palindromes
I was asked to check a file for palindromes. Here is the code I wrote.
... [ Read more ]# returns an array of matching palindromes in the file # the words are grouped in arrays # # [['god','dog'],['act','cat']] # def find_palindromes(file) if !file || !File.exist?(file) || !File.readable?(file) raise "Trouble with the file" end words = File.open(file,"r").read words = words.split(/\s/) words.uniq! palindrome = Hash.new(Arra
On the move
I am working on a pure ruby bittorrent library. I want to use pirate bay and bittorrent to chart out how many people are downloading a file. Then I want to track a new movie and chart that against its box office/dvd sales. Depending on the movie I dont think I will see a correlation between files downloaded and box office sales. I do think that the release of the dvd will have an effect on the charts.
In other good news I think I will cha... [ Read more ]
In other good news I think I will cha... [ Read more ]
How to cook four humans
Or How to Stall For Time Because the Site is Broken. I still have a nice fun bug where I only show this months stuff. Sure its no blogger but you know what? I built it. Other then that Duck Confit turned out well.
