http://tenderlovemaking.com The act of making love, tenderly. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ben Bleything inspired me (or rather distracted me from my yak shaving) to get my music library cleaned up and remove duplicates. Unfortunately my duplicates don't necessarily have ID3 tags, and they may be in different formats, so I wrote a gem called "earworm" which will identify unknown music. ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/08/04/identifying-unknown-music-with-ruby/ I'm finally back home. I went to Japan a few weeks ago for vacation, and I also spoke at Ruby Kaigi 2008. Ruby Kaigi was so much fun! I've been studying Japanese for a little over a year, but I've never been to Japan. It was ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/07/08/back-home/ The other day I wrote an app called dejour to give me growl notifications from all the *jour gems out there. I used Eric Hodel's awesome ruby-growl library. Unfortunately it does all communications over the interweb, so you have to tweak some knobs in Growl to get it ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/06/06/meow-meow-meow-meow-meow/ In my last post about Johnson, I said that next time I would talk about the JavaScript parse tree that Johnson provides. Well, I changed my mind. Sorry. I want to write about a rails plugin that I added to Johnson. Brohuda Katz wrote an ERb type parser ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/05/06/write-your-rails-view-in-javascript/ Sup bros. I need to post in this thing more often. Yesterday, someone tipped over my scooter again. I'm getting kind of tired of that. Anyway, its time for me to write about this. RKelly is pretty much dead. For the past few months, John and ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/04/23/take-it-to-the-limit-one-more-time/ Brobinius version 1.0.0 has been released! * * * I am happy to annouce the first release of my new fork of Ruby called Brobinius. The goal of Brobinius is to implement new language features that I have noticed to be completely missing. For example, Object#tase! The tase method is featured in ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/04/01/new-ruby-implementation-brobinius/ Dear Lazyweb, I would really like to Laser Etch my Macbook Air with Martha Stewart's face. Where can I get that done? How much would it cost? http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/03/20/laser-etch-my-macbook-air/ The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history. Changes: # Mechanize CHANGELOG ## 0.7.5 * Fixed a bug ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/03/15/mechanize-version-075-has-been-released/ Despite the recent Ruby webserver speed contests, most of the slowness at my job results from slow (or too many) database queries. To help keep database queries down, I added a stats to every page that shows the number of queries vs. cache hits, the number of rows returned, and the ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/03/13/profiling-database-queries-in-rails/ The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history. Changes: # Mechanize CHANGELOG ## 0.7.1 * Added iPhone to ... http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/03/04/mechanize-version-071-has-been-released/