20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]

20070615 Extracting data with Hpricot

For those (few) of you which haven’t heard about it, Hpricot is a nice library for parsing HTML in ruby, created by the even nicer _whytheluckystiff, author of Poignant’s Guide to Ruby, Camping and other ruby gems (may you excuse the pun? it was impossible to avoid it). Since I saw one demonstration by Rob [...]