Category: Ruby

Pulling strings on Raspberry Pi

I got my “Raspberry PI Starter Kit”:http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00AD12VLW/ this week. The Kit is very nice, as it comes packaged with everything you need in order to get your PI up and running ASAP. Just plugin the SD-Card, connect Ethernet cable and USB Power supply and your ready to go! h2. Booting Up After the PI has […]

Bringing Usergroups on Ruby

I am one of the “organizers”:http://hamburg.onruby.de/#wishes of the local “Ruby Usergroup in Hamburg”:http://hamburg.onruby.de/ for over two years now. We meet on a regular basis, every second wednesday each month. Some times we meet in a bar to grab some beers, some times we have full fledged community events with sponsors and high quality talks. All […]

Karotz + Ruby = Love

I made myself a little present this christmas by putting a “Karotz”:http://www.karotz.com/ under my christmas tree. This little digital bunny robot is the 3rd generation of a gadget that was once known as “Nabaztag”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag. Karotz can connect to the internet and you can deploy applications on it. It’s a tiny multitalent, speaks, blinks, turns his […]

Ruby Quirks

Once in a while I come accross some Ruby code where I don’t know why it is doing stuff the way it does… h2. Ternary Operator I am using the Ternary Operator quite a lot, because it keeps the code concise and often times more readable then long if-else statements. One thing that I discovered […]

Improved ASIN documentation

Beeing sick sucks, but on the other hand there is a lot of spare time… So, while sitting on my couch, I created a new resource for documentation of my pet project the “asin gem”:https://github.com/phoet/asin/, which you can “find on heroku”:https://github.com/phoet/asin_web: If you have any additions or questions feel free to “fork the project”:https://github.com/phoet/asin_web or […]