About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
On Thursday afternoon, I had an idea for just about the smallest web app I could think of (since then, I’ve even cut out a couple features). It didn’t make sense to use all of Ruby on Rails for this considering how tiny it was. Seemed like a great opportunity to try out Sinatra1 Write …
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All this work on command line Ruby apps has got me happily avoiding /views in this new Rails app. Ironic, considering when I first started writing in Ruby, the lack of presentation was my biggest mental hurdle.
Remember the Quicksilver to WordPress Applescript I wrote a while back? Well, I’ve ported it to Ruby. The QSPress.rb works the same as the Applescript version, with a couple of tweaks – you can now set categories, flag if a post should be a draft, and upload files – all from Quicksilver. The full instructions …
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I maintain a WordPress blog that’s primarily an extension of iPhoto, and the various iPhoto plugins (Photon by Daikini, Photon by Orby, WordPress Export) I’ve tried over the years seem to have stopped being maintained, stopped working, or both. Which is fine, they never worked exactly the way I wanted them too anyway. So, I …