- Luke Redpath » Blog Archive » Testing your Rails views with Hpricot — Because, you know, if you’re going to test models and controllers, test the damn views!
Tagged as: html programming ruby rubyonrails testing validation - A Rails Feature You Should be Using: with_scope — Yes – I definitely should be using this. Will refactor some code to take account of it at the weekend. A really elegant construction.
Tagged as: activerecord development rails ruby rubyonrails scope tips
The Science of Sleep
21 July 2006
Wow. The trailer for the new Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep, is now up over at the Apple trailers site.
Already, I can’t wait – looks delightful, and the stop-motion looks phenomenal. So glad Gondry seems to be finding suitable places to take his talents in Hollywood. Do watch it!
- Ultimate Exposure Computer — Complex, comprehensive, worth going back to; interesting for those times when you don’t want to use the light meter.
Tagged as: camera exposure howto photography useful
- Labnotes » Blog Archive » Scraping with style: scrAPI toolkit for Ruby — Wow. This totally comes in at my level of competence, and works pretty much how I’d want it to. Time to futz around with some prototypes…
Tagged as: code markup microformats parser programming ruby screenscraping script
- [giantJoystick] by Mary Flanagan (2006) | — "Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface." Fun!
Tagged as: art games giant interface technology - SCIFI.COM | The Amazing Screw-On Head — Awesome – animated Mignola to watch.
Tagged as: animation free lovecraft mignola mikemignola scifi - MySpace parser — Tom Dyson writes a MySpace parser in Python out of Beautiful Soup. Delightful – and really, really useful.
Tagged as: html myspace parser python scraping
Beirut to Doha
18 July 2006
My former colleague Andy is in Lebanon right now and is keeping a blog whilst there. The writing there is top-notch; do check it out. I hope he makes a swift and safe return to these shores; until then, I hope he manages to keep writing. I know I’d be terrified.
- cookin’/relaxin’: On the nature of time-based media — "Fractals are common in nature and show a repeating, self-similar structure and there is a similar kind of structure here from schedules to programmes to music and speech." – some great visualisation from Tristan Ferne.
Tagged as: audio broadcast media music visulisation - Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup) — Awesome – Julian starts building a game of Battleships played out in the real world and Google Earth, using a mobile phone as a geolocator. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops
Tagged as: battleships games locational maps research technology
Ze knows him some ugly
17 July 2006
“Ugly when compared to pre-existing notions of taste is a bummer, but ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool”
Ze Frank is so on the money. Good Show, go and watch it.
- thinglink blog: Design patterns for building with web APIs — MattB on fine form – an exceptionally clear explanation of the potential design patterns of building an API into your application
Tagged as: api application design development patterns thinglink web
- M@ McCray » Comatose, a Micro CMS Plugin — Comatose is a tiny CMS that you drop into other Rails apps as a plugin
Tagged as: cms plugin rails rubyonrails