Majestic Sea Creature
Technical Ramblings from Gregory Brown
Mooch, a GitHub downloader / vendorer / thingie
I've made a quick and dirty hack that I'll probably work on over time that solves a trivial problem: Downloading and vendoring libraries from GitHub. Yeah, yeah, I know Rails folks have their plugin installers and whatnot, but us Ruby kids like to be lazy too.
[ANN] Prawn 0.2.2 Released
The latest Prawn release has just been pushed out to RubyForge. This contains a few bug fixes and a couple new features that have been added due to popular demand.
Solution to Project Euler #67
Jia and I have been working on Project Euler, using a combination of Matlab, Ruby, and Erlang. I wanted to share the solution to #67 because it sort of dawned on me by accident.
A Trivial Dow Jones Ticker
I've been watching the economic crisis, not because I've got any interest in stocks, but because of the spectacle. In this post, I show a trivial script that gives me up to the minute Dow Jones change listings.
Prawn's Second Release (0.2)
After putting it off for what seemed like far too long, Prawn has finally seen its second major release. Along with it comes bug fixes, new features, and the introduction of new bugs. There are also some interesting shifts in the development plan, so if you're interested in catching up on all things Prawn, keep reading.
ICFP Partial Scores Released
The results for the first seven heats of ICFP Contest 2008, and amazingly our team (Five of Six) has managed to stay alive! With nearly 300 teams starting and a little over 70 remaining, that puts us in the top 25% of those who entered a solution.
Webby, I wish I knew you a week ago
It looks like others have already solved the 'I'm too lazy for dynamic web pages' problem in a much more elegant way than I did. Of course, I already knew about a few of them, but I wish I knew about Tim Pease's Webby earlier, as it does pretty much everything I need.
Prawn moves to test-spec / Mocha from RSpec
When I started Prawn, I wanted to use the latest and greatest tools available. For that reason, I chose to write the specs in RSpec. However, Prawn has a higher goal of maintaining Ruby 1.9 compatibility. RSpec is still not quite up to speed with Ruby 1.9, it seems, so we've jumped ship in hope of a more stable rig on top of test-spec and Mocha. Surprisingly, the conversion wasn't that much work.
New comment system
I give in to prospective spammers and haters
Bringing Back The Real
I finally bit the bullet and wrote my own blog software, and did the styling and design myself. Though you may not exactly appreciate the early 90's feel, I am really enjoying the fact that this blog is made mostly from my own efforts, rather than a cookie cutter that fits the cool kid in all of us. As building your own blog software is a geek rite of passage, I might as well take a quick walk through the features of Blaag, and also give folks a sense of the purpose behind this new blog.