A long time ago, in a summer far, far away, I was working on Flickr integration in Viviti and found most of the ruby libraries I could find were for the old and now defunkt Flickr API. To solve this i created a very simple wrapper around their REST interface, and then fleshed it out a little bit to …
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Simply Flickr library in ruby
November 17, 2008
40th Canadian Parliament
October 15, 2008
Well, it's the next day and things are more or less as they were. The Conservatives still don't have a majority, the Bloc still holds almost all the seats in Quebec, and the Liberals are still the official opposition.
So who won? In my opinion there were no real winners. Sure, there were small vic…
Fixing OpenSSL Certificates on OS X
September 19, 2008
Back from Greece
August 22, 2008
I'm back!
My absence for the last 4 weeks was due to a much needed vacation, most of which was spent sailing down the Pelleponese with my father on the gaff-rigged schooner he built. Part vacation, part training so I'll be able to sail Iliopotissa without help, we had quite the adventure.
In the 3 …
Explosions, Fires, and Birds
July 16, 2008
Monday was planned to be our release day of a new version of Viviti, but it was not to be. An underground explosion and fire took down a chunk of the power in downtown Vancouver, and while the water cooled generators worked, they stopped working in a hurry when the Vancouver Fire Department tapped i…
New bike!
June 18, 2008
After riding a supermarket giveaway bike (which proudly displayed the MJB Coffee logo on it's frame) for a couple years I finally gave in and bought a new bike. Perhaps more accurately, the bike gave out and I replaced it!
I love it - but it won't stay clean for very long, so I took some pictures …
The Canadian DMCA
June 14, 2008
The Conservatives have finally introduced the DMCA, resulting in somewhat predictable outrage from Canadians. For those not familiar with what this means if it's passed, I urge you to read some of Micheal Geist's recent posts - he breaks down the fine print. He's also posted a nice list of 30 things…
Serialized hashes with partial_updates in Rails 2.1
June 2, 2008
In Rails 2.1, they added partial updates - which is a great idea and a long time coming. This makes ActiveRecord only updates the parts of a model that has actually changed, and also gives you the ability to see if a field (or a record) has changed since retrieving it from the database. (via mode…
New layout, now using Viviti
May 20, 2008
I've regressed back to the late 90's in terms of design for my personal blog, and once again have a black-based design. Not sure how long it will last, but for now I like it!
Also, in the name of 'eating your own dogfood' I am now using Viviti for this blog. Previously it was custom blog software, w…
Nanaimo movie listings
April 3, 2008
A friend was complaining that there was nowhere he could find to get an RSS listing of movie showtimes, so I made a little script using Hpricot to parse forreel.com. Hopefully they don't mind!
Fr those of you locally, feel free to use it: http://jerrett.nullcreations.net/files/nanaimo_movies.xml
Viviti Launched!
March 13, 2008
Well we've finally launched Viviti - It's a web based/hosted CMS system that's component based. Fully themable using normal HTML, and all editable in browser (drag-n-drop to move stuff around, etc.).
As it is now, it supports adding custom blocks (text or html blocks), rss feeds, blogs, and a few ot…
Ruby shared-mime-info gem and OS X
February 18, 2008
For anyone doing stuff requiring a good MIME library in Ruby, shared-mime-info works well. On OS X a few things are necessary to make it work though.
First, use ports to install the shared-mime-info database:
sudo port install shared-mime-info
Then you have to set XDG_DATA_DIRS to point at the right…
ZSH Prompt to show git branch
February 15, 2008
After using git for a little bit I started tinkering with ZSH, to get the current branch in my prompt. What I ended up with is this:
Turns out it's pretty easy - somewhere in your .zshrc you need to put the following:
# get the name of the branch we are on
git_prompt_info() {
ref=$(git-symbolic-…Clearing floated elements without extra markup
January 16, 2008
Clearing floating elements is pretty commonly handled by a a div or br tag with clear: both.
Recently I ran into a problem with this; the layout I was working with was using floats for the sidebar and part of the main content had floated list of images. Using the clear both trick caused it to clear …
Rails Deployment
January 14, 2008
There is a post on RubyInside today that spawned quite the cascade of comments on the topic of deploying rails. While a lot to wade through, there are some interesting comments buried in there. I still find it strange that everyone is clamoring for a solution, while ignoring one that exists because …
A few useful tools
December 11, 2007
I've found a couple nifty tools that I figured I'd share:
Rak is a grep replacement written in ruby - it has some pretty neat features including nicer output by default, ignoring .svn and other similar directories. Definitely worth poking through at least the info on the website.
Reggy is a very sim…
Facebook and ownership of content
December 6, 2007
The internet is abuzz with Facebook and privacy due to the beacon thing - but another less discussed topic is the ownership of content issue. Simply uploading content to Facebook grants them full rights, commercial and otherwise, including sublicensing - their TOS really puts it into perspective. Th…
Netbeans ruby refactoring just got even better
November 13, 2007
Yesterday Tor checked in some new changes to netbeans 6.x which improve refactoring tools for ruby. Added are Extract method, introduce variable, introduce field, and introduce constant.
Tor goes into more depth on his blog, complete with examples and screenshots.
Installing ruby mysql gem in OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
November 9, 2007
It took awhile, but I've finally switched over to OSX - and from what I can tell by googling for "OSX Ruby mysql gem", have gone through what seems to be an initiation.
There are many, many, many posts on how to make it install - and most of them didn't work for me. I did get it to work though and a…
RubyConf 07
November 5, 2007
Well, I'm back from Charlotte and RubyConf 07!
This year was quite good, and again being larger than previous years. Notable was the focus mostly back on Ruby, as opposed to Rails. Ruby Central's plan of RailsConf to take the ruby focus back worked. Lots of people have been of course uploading pictu…
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