Tag Archives: Software
PostRank Python API
Posted on14. Jul, 2008 by Ash Christopher.
What is PostRank?
PostRank is a scoring system developed by AideRSS to rank any kind of online content, such as RSS feed items, blog posts, articles, or news stories. PostRank is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be.
Public-facing RESTful API’s are becoming more [...]
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A Few Weeks With Rails
Posted on05. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
It’s been a few weeks since I started using Ruby on Rails, and so far it has been pretty good. That isn’t to say I havent run into a few hickups.
I am quite familiar with PHP, so I set out to try to do the same things in rails as I would in PHP. [...]
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What Is This Rails Thing?
Posted on01. Oct, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
A few weeks ago, I downloaded an eBook on Ruby on Rails and gave the first few chapters a read. It was decently interesting, and it sounded like something I would like to get into. I am not a fan of eBooks, so I decided I would spring for a physical copy.
The book covers Rails [...]
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Solving The HTTP Double-Post Dilema
Posted on06. Mar, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
Everyone who has done any sort of web development, and made use of the HTTP POST has run into this problem. If you haven’t, are you sure you are doing proper QA?
Basically, the problem comes from having the POST information still resident after an HTTP POST. If the user were to refresh their browser, that [...]
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Converting TV Shows To Play On Your iPod In Linux
Posted on02. Mar, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
There are numerous Windows programs out there to convert video for use in your mobile devices. The problem however, is that unless you have a new dual-core machine your PC is more or less unusable until the conversion is complete.
Now, I know not everyone has a Linux machine just lying around, but I do, and [...]
