…Ruby. One thing I envy in Ruby is the simplicity of so many of their libraries – both core and 3rd party. Python’s urllib2 never really felt natural but here is a solution. Requests: “HTTP for humans”. An example will do it justice: r = requests.get(‘http://www.straw-dogs.co.uk’) r.content Wow – clean, simple and quick. Add to [...]
Mac’s are not a panacea for programming/web development. There! I said it. I feel like an alcoholic finally admitting he has a problem. So desperate to cling to the ideal that Macs make the perfect development machines but I was kidding myself all along. As a web developer/coder I used Windows and Linux (mainly Debian, [...]
First off – Holy shit. April was the last time I posted on this blog. That’s got to be the biggest break in posting I’ve ever had since this blog was created. No idea why but I have shifted jobs and had a lot of work on managing a new toy shop (yes I know [...]
Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such. You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a different approach here and state who does what and hopefully the weight of ‘who does what’ will make the point [...]
I was having a chat on the MicroSoft Networks fancy comms protocol. Aka: MSN. Along came someone with an opinion. As is customary I shot it down with wild abandon!! The quickie backstory: I suggested Python is better than Ruby. They argued using two example pictures – see below. Rubyists I Said: The Ruby pic: [...]
I’ve only just heard of this silly mess that occurred at the Golden Gate Ruby Conf and many people have already posted on this so I won’t bother wading in. But I thought I’d quickly say: Not impressed with Matt DHH or anyone else who considers it okay to display slides like that in a [...]
Its been a while since I did security related but today I came across an interesting platform – with much of it written in Ruby: Metasploit. Its basically a framework filled with exploits, payloads, auxilliary modules for port scanning, etc. You need to know how to use it obviously but what makes it cool is: [...]
Rails is crap. There – I said it. Apologies to the geek with a peanut dick but it just sucks really bad. Compared to PHP – Rails is Great Yeah it is great – its epic in fact. But then again that isn’t very hard is it considering how shit PHP is? Stop Stealing Ruby’s [...]
There’s a funky RubyGem available over on Rubyforge for managing your systems cron jobs. When I first started to read about it I got confused because it says you add a cron job for the jobmanager which then runs your cron jobs. Madness…not quite. This jobmanager thingy actually provides a great set of tools that [...]
Just yesterday I was reading about Dracula, Romanian language, Vlad the Impaler, Transylvania, etc. As you do of a Sunday evening. Then by sheer coincidence I come across Mike Mondragon who is the maintainer of MMS2R – a mobile phone MMS library for Ruby. Mike Mondragon – clearly the best name on RubyForge. I salute [...]
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