ruby
I wanted the LCD screen on my apartment door to display a message on certain days, such as birthdays, Christmas, and Easter. I didn't realize how hard it was to calculate which day Easter Sunday is... def easter(year) c=year/100 n=year-19*(year/19) k=(c-17)
compaq-evo-t20
This is just a little idea I had on the bus. Outside my apartment, I have a bucket for umbrellas. A program checks the local weather on weather.com from time to time. If there's any chance of rain, it switches on the lights installed in the bucket.
rails
Capistrano is a great tool, and I couldn't imagine running a project without it. I always wanted a quick way to know exactly what was running on each of our servers, and needed to know what would would change when I ran 'cap deploy'. "cap
rails
When you run a rake task for a Rails 3 project, it has to load the entire environment since gems can include their own rake tasks. I started to get annoyed by this, because every capistrano deployment would load up rails on my environment just to notify hoptoad. If you
rails
We are working with a Rails 3 port of Fat Free CRM. We have so many plugins modifying classes that we have to set config.cache_classes to true. But all our view templates seemed to stay cached as well, and I had to restart the server each time I
iphone
Custom sounds for iPhone mail tone and keypad I've released a few small packages to the modmyi cydia repo. You can find them by searching for them by name: Message For Me – IT Crowd Mail Tone Replaces the 'new email' sound with a clip of Moss
rss
Yahoo Pipes is fantastic. I wasn't a big fan of yahoo in the past, but their pipes service is amazing. Its great for sprucing up a not-so-well implemented RSS feed, and lets you create feeds from virtually anything on the web. Here's a daily Calvin and
ruby
Building a ruby gem these days is really, really easy. Bundler provides a great framework generator to get you started. Bundler also lets you install a gem straight from a github repository, so now is the time to say goodbye to your git submodules and start packaging your code into
bash
When you SSH into your iPhone, or if you use MobileTerminal, you might want to use some of the aliases or functions that you're used to. To do this: 1. Create and edit your ".bashrc" file at "/var/root/.bashrc" 2. Add the following
thoughts
Support Wikipedia!
iphone
https://github.com/ndbroadbent/ios_flat_10c This is the little app I wrote to control my apartment. Its not going to be much use to anyone by itself, but as it says on the github page: You could use this as a demo app to help you learn about:
compaq-evo-t20
My hall light turns on for 15 minutes if it's past 10pm and I unlock my door with an octopus card or iPhone. Its just a 12v relay (rated at 240V/30A), and some cat-5 to the thin client PC. All happens to fit perfectly inside the light