electronics
I turned an old brass pressure gauge into a vacant/engaged indicator for our bathroom. The needle is a hacked ammeter, and the metal slide lock on the other side of the door switches it on. (Inspired by this analog bandwidth meter.)
rails
I use gedit to write code. I keep a filebrowser tab open at the left side of my screen, and sometimes I need to look at gem's source code. RVM is awesome, and it keeps my 1.8.7 gems, 1.9.2 gems and all my gemsets
rails
I've written a tiny web application called 'Avatar Harmony'. You can sign in with twitter or facebook, add your Gravatar login details, and the app will automatically sync your profile pics across each of your accounts. It can sync avatars in the following directions: * Facebook =>
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