Ruby
Weekly review of what’s caught my eye
Here’s the first post of what will hopefully be a weekly roundup of things that interest me. It’s inspired by an attempt to blog more to achieve some mental clarity.
So, here’s what’s been on my mind this week, in loose order of importance:
Data Structures, nice ways to work with trees in SQL
I’ve been mentally wrangling [...]
Dipping my toes in the XMPP/Jabber stream
I’ve been thinking about integration of Zazengo with IM for a while now, but it has yet to become high enough priority on our roadmap for me to dive into it during the day.
But the night is for those experiments, right? I just dipped my toes in IM over ruby a bit tonight and wanted [...]
Strange JSON issue in Contacts gem
I’ve been using the contacts gem for a while now. It lets you pass in a username/password for a yahoo/gmail/hotmail or plaxo account, and after some under the hood lookups, it returns you a list of that user’s contacts. Pretty useful for things like an “invite your friends” system.
But the other day, when I tried [...]
Three ruby social network tools loosely analyzed
At Zazengo, we’ve push activity newsfeeds to our users, you know, the “Johnny posted a new discussion, Jane added a new project” kind of thing that is common on most social network platforms these days. Well, for quite a while now I’ve never been super happy with our implementation of them, mostly at the data [...]
My first gem, a rubygem that is, a little how to
I just published my first ruby gem. It’s not really working yet, but for me just publishing a gem was a new thing so I thought I’d share just a bit. I’ll tell you more about the gem itself in a day or two.
The basic process was super simple. First, I installed Hoe, read a [...]
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