One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays. That is, when you want a list, you can easily use an Array type, you may have to dereference that mutha, but you’re going to be able to use it and use it very conveniently. So, if you’re trying [...]

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I finished up the Rails books this weekend and finally started coding up my first project. The project is a secret now not because it’s great but just because I like keeping secrets, it’s what gives my blog that special sauce that you all can’t get enough of. Or I don’t want to be embarrassed [...]

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So, I’ve been slowly making some more headway into Agile Development with Rails. I’ve put behind me the intro section that was a bunch of chapters devoted to step by step building a little app. It was cool and an interesting way to put everything into perspective. Now I’m into the meat of the book [...]

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Lately I’ve been thinking about serendipity in the discovery of pages while surfing the web. With all the noodling around I’ve been doing with Yahoo Pipes (bear with me, this post isn’t about Pipes but rather a lucky byproduct of how I’ve used it…), I’ve installed a few widgets on this blog - the first [...]

Categories: et cetera · feature · pipes

I’ve spent a fairly reasonable amount of time messing around with pipes and have a few broad thoughts. I think it’s an impressive technology for sure and it really lowers the barrier to entry for people to start messing around with RSS feeds. You still need to be savvy, but if you can put together [...]

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Well, I lost a little momentum last week as I got swamped with work, so I haven’t made as much progress into the Rails book as I would have liked. I guess that’s life. Nevertheless, I’m a bit more than 100 pages in and have a couple thoughts on the book and on Rails.
I’m very [...]

Categories: ruby

I wanted to play around some more with the fake branching I was doing with putting domains in titles (or not). I wanted to try and imitate something a litte more substantial than just playing around with text fields - so I decided to see how I could make a pipe that returned either a [...]

Categories: pipes

See Also:
· PipeJAX my little widget to easily embed your pipes into your web page with customizable formatting.
· Using regexes for another type of pseudo branching
Ok, so I got an email today saying that Yahoo had built a new Split module (that let’s you basically clone a feed at any point in your pipe) and [...]

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Well, I got through the book part of the Pickaxe book (I haven’t gone through the reference part). Yay for me! Overall, I must say that I’m impressed with the language and excited to start doing some work with it (although, that will have to wait until I get through my Rails book - the [...]

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First we have the opening of Eyebeam’s 2007 exhibition season. Looks like a cool exhibit (with sessions) featuring street artists of all shapes and sizes. I love the graffiti research lab, or as my brain thinks of things - the laser guys. Watch this video, it will blow your mind. Seriously.
I think it’s an [...]

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