So building upon my other jaunts into Ruby I decided to post some code to make http requests to external urls. It could use come polish and there there is most definitely better mechanisms out there (probably a gem or two… or three) but tis fun to write well… code. First, here is an example [...]
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*Update* More relevant post: http://tinyhippos.com/2010/06/09/css-priming-for-fun-part-2-cssprimer-0-1/ I ran across a cool app for taking in html and spitting out an external css style sheet based on any ids/classes in the markup. PrimerCSS So I figured I would attempt my own (albeit more basic) version (in ruby) for fun or maybe my own use. I don’t go [...]
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With Google releasing their Closure tools to the public, the Closure Compiler and its RESTful API provides an accessible way to compile and minify Javascript code. We’ve been using the RESTful API as part of our automated deployment process and have found it to work very well for us. The Wiki example to call the web service [...]
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I think the title says it all. I should let the article that got me started with Heroku give you the whole low down about it but following after a blog post by the epic Patrick Rothfuss, I’ll throw those links at the bottom so you won’t get lost into the oblivion of awesomeness they will provide [...]
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