Get the Daily Rubyist

When playing around with the twitter aggregator, Paper.li, I came up with an idea to collect tweets about the ruby programming language. With Paper.li, you can enter hash tags and twitter searches to put together a nice source of information for an online paper. The Daily Rubyist, which is the paper I created, uses the following hash tags: #ruby (filtering out mentions of jewelery) #rails (as long as it mentions the word ruby) #git (as long as it mentions the words ruby or rails) Given the current articles popping up on 'The Daily Rubyist',...

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PragProWriMo: The NaNoWriMo for Tech Writers

If you're familiar with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month)  but not really into writing fiction, PragProWriMo might be right up your alley. Like NaNoWriMo, PragProWriMo is a month-long book writing event taking place each November (PragProWriMo 2011 marks the third year of this event.) However, instead of writing a novel, PragProWriMo participants are invited to write a book on a computing/tech topic. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write an entire novel (of at least 50,000 words) cover-to-cover from scratch in a 30 day period....

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Ruby DocTest with Victor Goff of RubyLearning

I did a Google+ hangout/interview with +Victor Goff who taught me how to use Ruby DocTest. It reminded me of RSpec, but the key difference is that Ruby DocTest is used with IRB returns. Nifty, right? Of course, I had to install a new gem. You can install it by running: gem install rubydoctest Victor created a file, hello.rb which contains code in a comment block. By running the following command, we ran an IRB session in the code comments: rubydoctest hello.rb This is what we created: ...

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Blogger Trick: Resize Ads Using an 'If' in Markup

I wanted to put ads on CodeGurl, but was having a problem with it looking tasteful, while still being effective. A 200 x 200 pixel ad unit (embedded at the top right of each post) is more effective in terms of CTR than a 125 x 125 pixel unit. The 200 x 200 pixel ad unit looks great in an individual blog post. However, when on the homepage, if a post...

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I was interviewed by ExtraSmall.Me - Check it out!

So, I wrote this article on being thin, for which I won something called an accolade on HubPages. Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by a blogger/reporter who wanted to do an interview for her new blog. So, after a large amount of procrastination I agreed to an interview, so you can read "What it's REALLY like to be naturally thin: interview" which is the end product of said interview. One thing I would like to add is that I agree with what I said to the question: What would you tell young naturally thin girls struggling with their self esteem? However,...

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