Even though OSX has a pretty GUI I find myself in the Terminal about 70% of the time. Luckily in the latest MacWorld Magazine they highlighted an app called the Terminal Here Plugin. It function should be familiar to any GNOME user, it gives you the option to open a terminal in the folder you …
An example of Rake
To help out people understand rake I am including a Rakefile I use to build my Life Graph. I will walk through each section and then append the entire file at the end of this post. First off, rake uses the idea of ‘tasks’ that each will do a job. Some tasks are Rake Tasks …
MacWorld 2006
Well I just visited the annual San Francisco MacWorld Expo. It was ok, I am not a people person so I did not enjoy the crowds. But it was pretty cool, I got to see what a lot of companies are doing and where innovation is (it definatly is not in iPod accessories, about 50% …
My Ruby Cookbook: #2 LugRadio Mirror Add
I have been mirroring the “LugRadio”:http://www.lugradio.org broadcast for a while on my server here. For each new episode, I have to download the new files and then add the urls for those files to their mirror database. Being that I am lazy and I love ruby (and the php script was ok but Eric.like(:php) == …
My Ruby Cookbook: #1 Textile Convertor
I just got a simple script working that will parse a text file that is marked up in “Textile”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/ and turn it into HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language). It is a simple “Ruby”:http://www.ruby-lang.org script that requires RubyGems and “RedCloth”:http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/. Just run <typo:code> ruby textilize.rb myfile.txt another_file.txt </typo:code> and it will create a myfile.txt.html and another_file.txt.html. This …