Archives for December 2007
Secret Santa w/ Ruby
For our office secret santa pool, I wrote a quick little ruby script to generate the pairings and email each of the people in our office with their result.
Here’s the salient code:
pool = ["person1@email.address.com",
"person2@email.address.com",
"person3@email.address.com"]
avail = pool.dup
pairs = []
pool.each do [...]
Bar Masa
I’ve always wanted to try Masa, that shrine to sushi perfection, with its $300 prix fixe menu. I didn’t do that last week, but I did get a mini sampler at Bar Masa, which is nonetheless frightfully expensive, though somewhat less so than Masa. I was there showing my Chilean friend Maca around. [...]
Gomboc Self-Righting Object: Created!
The Gomboc, a special object that has only a single point of balance, and thus is self-righting, has been created. Read more about it in NYT or visit the (hungarian) website for a short visual demo. I can’t wait to see one of these things in real life.
Sweet Relief: Non-visual Editor
I’ve always eschewed, if not outright hated, WYSIWYG editors, from the early, incredibly crappy HTML editors like GoLive and Dreamweaver to the recent yet still incredibly crappy TinyMCE. I upgraded WordPress a little while ago, and have done nothing but struggle against the new and improved visual editor. I can’t write HTML, the [...]
Making Applescript suck less with Ruby
I was messing around with Adium’s iTunes status message functionality today and ended up coming across RubyOSA, a gem that bridges AppleEvent functionality with Ruby. Â You can use RubyOSA to do anything that AppleScript can do, using familiar Ruby syntax. Â It also comes with a command-line tool that you can use to generate RDoc-style documentation [...]
