Yahoo Grids and Rails

A Yahoo Grids Helper for Ruby on Rails. This looks really interesting, I've been wanting to try out Yahoo Grids for some time now, and with this Rails helper, it'll be easier to use.

ZTD

Zen
To Done - A neat twist on GTD.

Some things to change

Now that I've finally got all this working, there are some things I'm
not happy with in gblogger.el, and I'm now emboldened to change some
of them. Emacs + GData + Blogger rocks.

Now that I have this working, I wonder, would it be possible to get
GMail and Emacs to work together? I don't want the VM or Gnus
integration with GMail, I just want a client to GMail that I can
interact with from Emacs, not Firefox. I'll let you know how it goes.

Works!

Yay! It works! I can post to blogger with Emacs, through GData.


It turns out that the problem was with zsh, I needed to escape the
contents of the g-auth-url-pattern with quotes. It was easy to see what
was wrong when I finally figured out why the *g auth* buffer wasn't
showing up: If you put a space before the buffer name, like " *g
auth*" it is considered a temporary buffer and isn't displayed in the
listing of buffers.


When I removed this space, and turned it into a buffer I could view, I
saw a zsh error, and immediately realized I had to put quotes around
the string. Whew, what a trial that was!

Well, I'm getting closer and closer, but I'm having real trouble
because I don't understand enough about Emacs Lisp yet. I'm getting
pretty frustrated, so I think I should just stop for now, and try
again later.

It looks like the problem is that somehow the "Auth" token in
g-cookies isn't getting set properly, it's currently nil, and should
be a long string. I was getting deep into the g-authenticate
function, but am having trouble with all the buffer stuff. Someday I
really just need to do the Emacs Introduction tutorial properly, and
understand more about how Emacs does things with buffers.

But right now, I have too much other stuff to learn about with Ruby
and Javascript, and my brain just isn't big enough to learn Lisp as
well. It's so frustrating, because I really want to start posting to
blogger from inside Emacs, but it's just not going to happen right
now.

All I want to be,
is someone that makes new things.
And thinks about them.

Piet Mondrian

libketama - a consistent hashing algo for memcache clients

Neat, this allows you to add and remove memcached clients as you need to. This will be very useful when using EC2.

Now, we need some good integration of memcached, S3, EC2 and MySQL.

Atom Publishing Protocol interop - Really cool, this looks like an awesome API.

I'm trying to setup blogging from inside Emacs, but I'm getting some errors, so I'm reading all about the specs to understand what's going wrong:

The Atom Publishing Protocol
Overview of the new Blogger API
Google Data APIs overview
GData Authorization for Installed Applications

Wow, this is so powerful. Google, you rock.

I just posted a new gallery of pictures I took today of plants in my garden and greenhouse.

In the preface to Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson and Sussman state

“First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

From jrm-code-project.

The Planck Temperature, 10^32 degrees K is the hottest possible temperature, using the Standard Model.

That's so trippy, a little summary: at 10^10 degrees, particles approach the speed of light, but as we all know, you can't reach the speed of light, you just get more and more massive. So, at 10^32 degrees, each particle of matter becomes so massive, it turns into a black hole. Trip-p-y!

The Ethereal Docs

 

 

 

 

Doing a little running of EC2 instances today. I <3 EC2.

A nice looking javascript rating widget. I've done my own like 4 times now, each one a different approach, and I'm still not happy with them. I've tried CSS and Javascript, but it still doesn't feel right in my Ruby on Rails projects. Maybe this one will be better.

When I was looking for my favorite internet streaming radio station, Cryosleep, I chanced upon another Cryosleep, an audio binaural beat tone generator that produces nice sounding output.

watermelon love

omfg.

This looks like a job for my Super Pretty Missile Kick!

Gotta clear out opera:

Faster ferret pagination in Rails:

Acts as Ferret tutorial:

A problem with
attachment_fu that got me for a while on Sunday, attachment_fu has
problems when you try to update an attachment. I got around it by
just deleting the record, however, this doesn't delete the data from
S3, so it's an incomplete solution.

I downloaded Mephisto
to try to track down how they are updating an attachment_fu. It looks
like they're doing the same thing I was trying:

Generating thumbnail images with with acts_as_attachment, the
predecessor of attachment_fu:

More on acts_as_attachment

The main acts_as_attachment page

ImageScience, a small library to just resize images. It's to help
replace ImageMagick, because some of these Rails people don't like
having to install all the RMagick dependencies. If the RMagick gem
could just report the error messages when it's building a bit better,
I think there would be less issues with it:

href="http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2007/2/25/attachment_fu-tutorial">attachment_fu
tutorial. attachment_fu is the new acts_as_attachment, and I
really like it, it's much better than than file_column. I was loyal
to file_column for almost a year, but it's time to move on:

AWS::S3 for Ruby. Really sweet.

A really great attachment_fu tutorial

href="http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/6a4aa492722da26a?hl=en">Dynamically
setting the image directory used by attachment_fu

Installing ImageScience

attachment_fu with S3: custom path?

The RADAR
Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient