Double Shot #56

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

Had one of those happy moments yesterday of saying “sure, I can make that change” and knowing how to quickly rearrange things in the Rails app I’m working on. Of course, I used to be able to do that in VB as well. But it certainly hadn’t been the feeling in ASP.NET lately.

  • scRUBYt! 0.3.0 – High-level web-scraping framework based on hpricot.
  • Ruby/Password – Suite of password-handling utilities for Ruby, including password-strength checking and generation of strong passwords.
  • Rails Google Maps Plugin – An introduction to using YM4R. Looks like I’m going to need this.

Double Shot #17

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

If you like challenges, I can recommend LSL. It’s certainly one of the more hack-inducing, infuriating languages I’ve ever tried to work in.

  • tumblr – Tumblelog software that can automatically import RSS feeds, and thus becomes another tool for lifestreaming. They’re coming out of the woodwork now.
  • Capistrano security fun – Turns out there’s an information leak in the default use of Capistrano. Not a real high pri issue for most sites, but a bit sloppy. (via Ruby Inside)
  • Customize Your Rake Files – To make rcov behave the way you want it to.

Double Shot #16

Posted by Mike
Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

I actually managed to make a Second Life object add a row to a database via a Rails application. This is either progress or madness, I’m not sure which.

  • ActiveWarehouse Road Map – Some notes on where the ActiveWarehouse plugin is headed.
  • Find Resource – Plugin to make RESTful Rails projects more DRY.
  • Plugins – Acts As Enterprisey – Is part of grokking a new language knowing when something is a joke? (via Steve Eichert)
  • Ruby on Rails Security – New blog devoted to, you guessed it, Rails security. (via Ruby Inside)
  • Feed Digest – Another online tool for lifestreaming. Unfortunately, packrat that I am, what I really want is a client-side tool that slurps everything down into some datastore on my end, where I can archive it forever, search it, run statistics on it, will it to my kids…
  • Mindquarry – Potentially interesting open source collaboration server. (via James Governor)