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A git twitter account

29-Jun-10

EDIT : See update at the bottom

Ever wished there was one twitter account where you could follow everything #git related? Well, now there is!
I was looking for a way to list – in the twitter sense – everything git related, but found there wasn’t really an easy way to do that. So I put together [...]

Introducing YetiUp!

20-Mar-09

Ever since I signed up for Facebook a few months ago I’ve been bummed that their ‘Mobile’ application doesn’t support my carrier (T-Mobile). Since I’ve got a pretty basic phone (Nokia 6133), I couldn’t install a Facebook application on the device either. (For those not familiar with it, their Mobile app allows you to upload [...]

Sinatra on Dreamhost

07-Mar-09

EDIT 2: My patch to the Sinatra Book has been accepted. The instructions below can now be found in the book itself.
EDIT : I’ve created a page on the dreamhost wiki that includes this information.
There is a lot of good information on how to run Sinatra on Dreamhost, but after following all the excellent advice, [...]

Receiving emails in Rails using Gmail & IMAP, while staying efficient and RESTful.

07-Feb-09

For a recent project I had a need to receive emails (actually MMSs, but that’ll be the subject of a future post) in a Rails application. My requirements for the solution were:

Shouldn’t require root access: I’m deploying this app to a shared hosting service on which I don’t have root.
Shouldn’t require firing up the Rails [...]