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April 30th 2010
RedirectFollower Rubygem
Today I've been thinking about a small Twitter-based project which involves urls posted by people there. Those urls use some url shortening service like bit.ly in most cases - but I needed the actual destinations for those links. I ended up stealing code from John Nunemaker, wrapping it up into a Ruby gem and releasing version 0.1.0 of RedirectFollower. You can find the source code on GitHub.
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February 25th 2010
Moved my blog
After finally realizing that it really is Wordpress that is stopping me from writing more frequently because of the additional hassle with formatting, linking and syntax highlighting, I created my own blog software which features Markdown formatting, CodeRay syntax highlighting, and moved my blog over to heroku.
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January 3rd 2010
Happy new year!
It's a bit belated for sure, but I was stuck at my girlfriend's family in southern Germany and in the holidays, so there was no time (or reason) to get in front of a computer... A happy new year to all of you. Of course, the title of this blog had to be updated accordingly to 2010. I'll try and keep more posts pouring in this year!
Older posts
- Moving Repos and Redmine from SVN to Git September 11th 2009
- Latest updates in The Ruby Toolbox June 25th 2009
- Announcing: The Ruby Toolbox May 1st 2009
- Burn like fire in Cairo April 13th 2009
- Ruby, Rails, RHTML and Shoulda Snippets for gedit April 10th 2009
- Another state machine for Ruby March 9th 2009
- Introducing ActiveRecord Skeleton February 21st 2009
- Giraffesoft releasing Gems and Plugins this week February 17th 2009
- RDoc index for your Gems February 13th 2009
- Added my Google Reader Shared Items February 9th 2009