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• Learning Ruby - Day 5  Day 5 is all about objects and their methods. Remember a few months back when Apple introduced the Shuffle? Everyone was up-in-arms about it’s lack of screen and how it was useless an mp3 player without a screen is. When in-fact, the lack of screen simplifies and improves the device a great deal. Ruby is like
• A Call for Dashboard Widget Evaluators Last night, I was poking around Apple’s Dashboard Documentation and starting building a couple widgets. If you’ve upgraded to Tiger and interested in kicking the tires on them, drop me a line. Widget #1 released 18 May 2005: The ProjectMaker Dashboard Widget
• How to Automatically Link URLs in Rails Let’s say you have a Rails app and you’d like any URLs in any plain text string to be automatically hyperlinked. Well, then you’ll need this: .gsub(/((http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?)/, ‘<a href=\’\1\’>\1</a>’) For example: I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com Through: "I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com".description.gsub(/((http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?)/, ‘<a href=\’\1\’>\1</a>’) Results in: I blog at http://garrickvanburen.com
• Setting up a Web Development Environment in Tiger This message means the upgrade is complete. Last week I started the upgrade Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” around the house. To my pleasant surprise, it went extremely smoothly. The most tedious and frustrating part was waiting for my newly enclosed external hard drive to copy tens of gigs of files back and forth for
• Learning Ruby - Day 2  Day 2 starts with one of the most valuable programming exercises. What can I do with an object? Just ask it: self.methods With ’self’ being the current object, the above question returns a list of all the questions ’self’ knows how to answer. Every object in Ruby can be asked this question. So many languages are only