CocoaHeads MN July 2009
Bill Heyman from Code Morphic led a discussion on some topics from WWDC 2009 and iPhone 3.0 SDK features.
Rewrite URLs with Nginx
A previous work project involved changing our blog software and server configuration. Date-based URLs would no longer be used, and the blog would be run within the main site instead of on a subdomain. The “slug” (which is this-is-the-page-slug in...
Auto-linking Twitter Tweets in Ruby and JavaScript
Ruby on Rails introduced me to the concept of an auto_link helper method, which finds and hyperlinks URLs within text.
Stats-driven Lens Shopping with Ruby
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...
F1 Webchallenge Team Ruby.mn Recap
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...
Rails Deployments
This September I deployed two Rails applications with different stacks, and I wanted to share the details.
WindyCityRails Conference 2008
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.
Edward Tufte "Presenting Data And Information" Minneapolis 2008
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.
Chart Your Console History with Google Charts
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...
No Fluff Just Stuff April Conference 2007
I attended the No Fluff Just Stuff Java symposium with some co-workers.