On Lifehack.org there is a post by Kelvin Quee that gives a few ways to cut the digital cord. I admit I am guillty of many of them; ok all of them. Here are my thoughts on each of them: The wget idea is great. It could even stop ads if you can restrict the [...]
Archive | April, 2006
Ruby and synergy
Long time no see, my Hacking Journal. As much as I want to play catchup with what has happened since my last post I have other things to talk about first. I got my Programming Ruby (Pickaxe) book today so I spent some time hacking up a script. It was the first time I was [...]
Check Your Services with Ruby
I just got my Pickaxe v2 book in the mail today and have already put it to good use writing a script to check that the services for a host are up and responding. It uses many of the libraries included with Ruby but also another library ‘net-ping’ which you can get with a gem [...]
Ruby and Rails Jobs
Just in case someone has missed it there is a website that has a list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails job postings. I have been tracking it since it started and have noticed a surge in posting recently. Eric Davis
Get a text backup of your Typo
After using Typo for some time now, I wanted a raw backup of my many posts. So I used some Ruby to extract of that information. First I wanted a raw text file of my content. $ script/runner -e production “Content.find(:all, :conditions => ‘type = \”Article\”‘). \ each {|i| puts ‘##########’; puts i.title; puts ”; [...]
Brighthouse and some Trunky Goodness
I have now updated the theme here, if you are viewing it vi RSS just stop by and check it out. I am using the Brighthouse theme by Richard White. I like the cleanliness of the theme. But most important it is maintained more than some of the other themes I have seen, so I [...]
Hear your cpu in action!
Want to hear your CPU think? cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp CAUTION: This may be loud! Eric Davis
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