http://www.lakedenman.com Thoughts & Discoveries Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:46:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The software is beta, the simplicity is still all there, and there is still work to do. However, I wanted to announce my success of http://www.music.contrastandcompare.com. The goal was to have a site where I could host all my music (and my friends) easily and quickly. The solution? Ruby on Rails, Dreamhost, ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/06/18/i-had-another-baby-or-musiccontrastandcomparecom-is-live/ Howdy Howdy Friends, Today I am taking a few minutes to describe and explain a simple assignment that I completed with ruby. The assignment reads as follows: Using the following data, calculate and print out the average miles per gallon for each vehicle. Round the output to the nearest 10th ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/06/16/the-car-goes-vrooooom/ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost I usually work around 40 hours a week, receiving my paychecks bi-monthly. Every two weeks I have to add up my hours and invoice them. I'd like to do this ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/28/adding-up-hours-or-the-road-less-traveled/ So, there is at least one way to solve my problem with Ruby. The problem is that I have a bunch of hex color codes and I want to append the number sign before each one. Well, I say a bunch... But, I'll only use 5. So here is our slick ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/27/the-clean-arraymap-method/ When I discovered that I had an account at rubyplus.org and realized how many screencasts they had that were available for my viewing pleasure, I got excited... Real excited! And then I noticed that I would have to click the download button for each and every one of the videos; I ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/ Unless you aren't in the know, Ryan Bates' RailsCasts happens to be a really great series of short rails blurbs giving you good hints into anything from checking out your production log to refactoring your code to restful authentication and so on and on and on. Last night I decided it ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/02/railscasts-on-my-iphone/ I just installed RSpec for a project I'm working on. I may be doing things a little bit in reverse since I haven't written much of any test code and my application is already over the halfway point... It's a pretty huge project; The half-way point is like 10 miles ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/04/30/rspec-which-matcher-should-i-use/ The Jing Project is an interesting application that I stumbled upon the other day. I didn’t actually use the site stumble upon to find it, I actually just saw a group of pictures on Flickr that were watermarked: “Brought to you by the Jing Project.” So, I didn’t think much of ... http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/04/30/the-jing-project/