20100623 ruby in the pub #4 :after

Julian Burgess (who I had virtually met via Twitter) suggested me I should attend the next ruby in the pub. It sounded decidedly odd: mixing journalists with an interest for code with ruby developers; even more strange considering I’m not a ruby expert as much as I try, so I thought it could be interesting [...]

20081024 How to install hpricot in Ubuntu 8.4

This could be considered a fresh installation, speaking in ruby terms. I just had ruby installed, no ruby gems, nor ruby dev nor anything else ruby. So this should be enough for installing hpricot as well as ruby gems (which are required for installing hpricot). As you can see, I didn’t download any source file, [...]

20080325 Parsing a del.icio.us export with Hpricot

The trickiest part is to detect if a bookmark has a corresponding description. The export is in the same format that Netscape used for its bookmarks export, which means it is a simple html file with a definition list (dl) and a series of definition terms (dt). A term (=bookmarks) may have a description (dd). [...]

20071005 Removing elements with Hpricot

Something like a month ago, a guy asked me how to remove elements with Hpricot. I told him I would look into it but it’s been a month already! So I hope I can compensate for the delay with this minitutorial on removing stuff with Hpricot! :-) First I created a simple test page. It’s [...]

20070627 Superminigallery: a gallery with ruby, rmagick and builder

Imagine you have been in a very nice place for holidays. You took a lot of pictures and want to show them to your family and friends, but you don’t feel like using services like flickr or programs like iPhoto. You just want to put them in your own server and give the url to [...]