I’ve been reading up a lot on different ways to manage code using SCM systems because my current ones take way to long to do anything advanced. How to use Piston to ease your upgrades – Piston looks like an easy way to work with upstream svn repositories. Currently, I do a huge hack of …
Tag: ruby
Mephisto Trackback Library
I really enjoy using Mephisto but it is missing some of the features that other blogging applications have. One is the ability to send a trackback ping to another blog post. So I built my own library to handle it. Download trackback.rb require 'net/http' require 'uri' # Simple trackback class to send a trackback to …
Got API?
If you spend a lot of your time looking up all the different methods and functions from your programming language or framework, try gotAPI. gotAPI consolidates a lot of the API documentation scattered across the web and provides a simple live search for it. Best of all, I can use the same website to lookup …
Using Ruby on Rails for a Client Project
Depending on what your client needs, Ruby on Rails may or may not be a good technology choice. Whenever someone is looking for a new project I go through this mental checklist to see if Ruby on Rails would be the best fit for them: 1. Does the project call for a web based application? …
Rails Rumble 2007 – Whats Your Habit?
The Rails Rumble 2007 programming contest is now accepting votes for the best applications. My entry is called Whats your habit? and is a web program designed to help people easily track their habits. Please go and vote at the Rails Rumble Voting site and leave your comments here. My goal with the program was …