http://pqmf.com Paul McKibbin does not exist as either a human or a corporate entity Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:28:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having switched from XML to YML as a data language for most of my code, I recently had a need to process some old legacy data (a chrononauts game) which was still in XML format. Rather than using this data as it was, I wanted to see how tricky it ... http://pqmf.com/ruby/xml-to-yml-conversion/ I still use subversion for most of my projects, despite the fact that most of the (Ruby) world seems to be moving to git as its main repository. I'm still at the "I'll try it" stage (see Softies on Rails for the 4 stages of Rubyist experimentation), and will be ... http://pqmf.com/subversion/recovering-from-subversion-checksum-error-corruption/ One of the (many!) projects I've been working on required a ruby interface to a legacy database which contains existing state information in numeric form. I've been using aasm for other projects, and since the state is well defined, this seemed like a good opportunity to see if aasm would ... http://pqmf.com/ruby/acts-as-state-machine-with-legacy-database-rubyist-aasm/ I recently needed to make sure all my files were named according to their content rather than to an arbitrary extension that had been added to them. This resulted in extending the ruby FileUtils to use the Unix file command to return the filename and type as array elements so ... http://pqmf.com/ruby/executing-the-unix-find-command-to-determine-real-file-types-from-ruby/ I recently had to so some testing of an in-memory OLE object, which also allowed persistance to an XML file. The structure of the two (in-memory and in-file) were similar enough for me to look at XMLSimple, which creates a Hash, and since I only like writing code once where ... http://pqmf.com/ruby/automatically-creating-for-ruby-hashes/ Recently, I've been looking at the Streamlined framework. For those of you who don't know, Streamlined is an Ajaxified Scaffold currently under development. The edge version shows promise and is stable enough for my personal use as an administration tool. One area which is particularly interesting is the way that they ... http://pqmf.com/ruby/enhancing-streamlined-enumerations/ Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Surface announcement, and the statement by Tim Berners Lee that various devices and integrated software packages will be talking to each other seemlessly over the internet, and that everything (electronic) will be more tightly integrated in the future (Does anyone want to say ... http://pqmf.com/cool/microsoft-surface-parody/ I have another website on my portfolio. You can check out their work (and mine) at http://completefloorsltd.co.uk http://pqmf.com/websites/complete-floors/ New website development. Not in Ruby this time, but they are happy with the results. Check it out at http://butlerandbrown.com. http://pqmf.com/websites/tree-surgery/ The BBC listen again facility allows you to play back audio broadcasts up to seven days after they originally air. That's fine, unless you listen to most of your radio in the car, or away from your computer. OK. So you can listen live, as long as you are in the ... http://pqmf.com/pvr/realplayer-streaming-bbc-to-mp3-files/