20120317 A first impression on Ruby’s Mechanize

TL;DR: If you need to do screen scrapping, use ruby’s Mechanize.

20120212 My favourite GIMP plug-ins

When I used Ubuntu I normally installed a fancy package called gimp-plugin-registry that came with most of the plug-ins I liked, and then some more stuff that I never used. I had learnt to ignore that, but there was still the pain of not knowing where things were. Some filters went to “Colors”, others to [...]

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). [...]