May 5, 2009
Ruby-DLC on Github

Ruby-DLC is now available on github, and consequently as a gem! You can install with: 

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install jphastings-dlc
There’s a gist explaining how to use the library and the rdoc documentation is still available on my project page. Please file an issue if you have any problems with the code, I haven’t checked it thoroughly!

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Filed under: ruby code gem github ruby-dlc dlc 
May 5, 2009
Porting to Ruby

I had some time to kill today, so I rewrote the DLC api in Ruby.

If you use JDownloader you’ll know how useful the DLCs are, essentially they allow you to contain all the links from a variety of online hosting sources in one place with any passwords that might be needed. All this data is also kept encrypted to prevent people from poking around inside and stealing the links!

Now, should you wish to create one of these DLCs there’s a handy ruby API I’ve built thats so simple you can even use it from irb! Enjoy.

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Filed under: ruby code dlc 
April 29, 2009
CampusBot

I’m building a twitterbot to answer questions about things happening on my university campus. Should be fun, I’ve decided to use Ruby and Active Record as a foundation :)

Might be a few days before anything appears on github, I’ve got a few exams in the near future!

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Filed under: ruby code Twitter campusbot 
April 21, 2009
I improved Where On The Web? with an OpenGL twist (making it a lot faster - tho antialiasing is broken) and by varying the size of the ‘packets’ as they travel around the globe, you can now see roughly how much data is winging its way around the web. The gist containing the sketch has been updated to reflect these changes, have a play! (bigger image)

I improved Where On The Web? with an OpenGL twist (making it a lot faster - tho antialiasing is broken) and by varying the size of the ‘packets’ as they travel around the globe, you can now see roughly how much data is winging its way around the web.

The gist containing the sketch has been updated to reflect these changes, have a play!

(bigger image)

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Filed under: whereontheweb ruby processing map geo 
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