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obfuscated mailto – ruby one liner
I have always been annoyed at having to write email addresses online such as codefoo at bar dot com/code. Damn the spambots! I recently ran across this technique for obfuscating email addresses on web pages so that it appears normal to the user, but not something which could be easily parsed by a spambot. You [...]
another great thing about ruby – the unit testing
The more I use ruby, the more I love it. I ran across this today – the ability to run individual unit tests. You can run an individual test method within a test case by providing the -n switch after the ruby file containing the tests. the -n argument accepts either an absolute test method [...]
new ride
I finally got a bike! I picked up a 1999 Suzuki Intruder VS1400 with only 4200 miles at a very reasonable price. The bike came with windshield, saddle bags, engine crash bar and some Vance Hines pipes (very loud). It’s a blast to ride. I’ve put about 350 miles on it since I picked it [...]
identity 2.0 – great presentation
One of the best presentations from OSCON given as a keynote by Dick Hardt has been published online. It’s a must see. I was blown away when I watched this at the conference. It’s an incredibly entertaining and interesting presentation. Identity 2.0 – OSCON 2005 Keynote
office revenge – aluminum foil desk
When I first started at my current job, I was out sick for a couple of days and came back to my office totally re-arranged as a practical joke. Pictures were upside down, glasses taped to the desk, shoes hanging from the ceiling, and about 100 other small re-arrangements. It took a while to get [...]
Interesting app – the semantic web
A friend of mine pointed me to an interesting app this afternoon. Piggy-Bank The description from the site is bq. Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser� It seems to take the various website data (via screen scrape) create an RDF document out of [...]
new toy
It was time for a new toy… Since the old digital camera was old and busted, it was time to bring in the new and shiny. I wound up getting a Nikon Coolpix 4800 I really like this camera. They did a good job with controls on the camera. You don’t have to push too [...]
new server
My host has moved locations and everyone is now running on new hardware. The move was painless. For me atleast. Everything was working just fine when I tested it out a little while ago. Hopefully the combination of new hardware and hosting facility will fix the downtime problems I (they) have been having. From textdrive’s [...]
Switched from Fedora to Ubuntu
I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu last week on my computer at work and I could not be happier. Setup was simple. I really like the apt-get, gentoo portage and BSD ports model. RPM is just too much of a pain. One interesting thing about Ubuntu is that there is not a standard root account. [...]
Ruby Proc
I was looking at ruby proc while researching the best way to do mapping in ruby (xml-db and db-xml mappings) and ran across this blog posting on procs. The flexibility of ruby never ceases to amaze me. http://www.ntecs.de/blog/Tech/Programming/Ruby/RubyMethodNamingConsistency.rdoc