Data Scraping With Ruby
If you are looking for a way to scrape data off of websites that do not have an API, here is a simple how-to video for it. Data Scraping And More With Ruby, Nokogiri, Sinatra And Heroku - Hunter Powers: Data scraping is the process of extracting data from output...
Moving away from PHP
This is exactly why I am moving away from GoDaddy and PHP. Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity: I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because – okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.</p> You pull out a screwdriver, and...
Simulating Low Bandwidth For Local Web Development
It is important to know how a webpage would load on another person's computer, especially when it involves AJAX and page scripting. It may work properly and load as fast as it is, this is not the case on another machine with another configuration. Therefore, it is essential to be...
Talking Piano
Using different keys of the piano, Peter Ablinger plays a digitized sound recording of a child on a Talking Piano:
Cycling down the Capitol steps, 1885
The original BMX: Cycling down the Capitol steps, 1885 | Retronaut: Will Robertson of the Washington Bicycle Club riding an American Star Bicycle down the steps of the United States Capitol in 1885</p>
Javascript MVC Frameworks
After careful consideration, I have decided to stick with Ember.js for my new Javascript MVC experiment. The Top 10 Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed - CodeBrief: At the end of the day, Ember.js is the only framework which has everything I desire.</p>
Portfolio on Rails
Finished upgrading my portfolio website to Rails -- hosted on Heroku. Photo content is hosted on Flickr and is directly fetched from there by the client. This should tell you more about how appreciative I am of GoDaddy.
Mark Gonzales vs THPS
Stumbled upon a character named Mark Gonzales; known for revolutionizing street skating. What used to be a flatland arena, has been overturned to become more acrobatic with Mark's invention of Grinds. Got linked to a video of some of his contemporaries skating in various locations, and found some similarities with...
Authlogic in Rails 3
Most tutorials you find on Authlogic assume Rails 2. Here is somewhat useful Authlogic setup walkthrough for Rais 3 by Logan Bailey.