Andrew Atkinson

Ruby on Rails introduced me to the concept of an auto_link helper method, which finds and hyperlinks URLs within text.

Programming Ruby JavaScript Tips Scripts RegExp

I developed the script photo_stats.rb to move through date-based folders of photos, and grab EXIF data (thanks to the exifr gem) for each photo. The script calculates the mean focal distance of all the photos, sums photos at the widest...

Scripts Ruby Tips Programming

This year I participated in the F1 Web Challenge. The event brings together teams of programmers, designers, and project managers with non-profit organizations. The goal is to build a professional website for the non-profit in less than 24 hours, and...

Events Ruby Rails JavaScript

This September I deployed two Rails applications with different stacks, and I wanted to share the details.

DevOps Ruby Rails

My notes from the WindyCityRails 2008 1-day conference held Saturday September 20th, 2008 in Chicago. This conference was for the Ruby on Rails framework. I traveled from Minneapolis for the conference.

Ruby Rails Conferences Events

Edward Tufte is a statistician and considered an expert on presenting data visually. Tufte was highly recommended, so I decided to attend his 1-day course in Minneapolis. Part of the event cost included four of Tufte’s books as hardcovers.

Books Events Productivity Conferences

This script was for fun to play around with Google Charts. There was an internet meme going around where programmers were posting their console history on their blogs. I took the output from that script and made a Ruby hash...

Scripts Tips Ruby JavaScript Programming

I attended the No Fluff Just Stuff Java symposium with some co-workers.

Conferences Events Java

Today I’m attending the Twin Cities Code Camp, a free conference with sessions on .NET, testing, Ajax, and web services. Here are summaries of the morning sessions I attended.

Events Conferences