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A Ruby Interface to the YouTube API

over 5 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
We have mashups using maps, links, events, photos, Amazon items, and eBay auctions. What is the next logic step? Video ofcourse! Learn from the Myspace...

FeedBurner Auto-Discovery Links in Typo

over 5 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
Damien Tanner has a nice article on how to migrate Typo feeds to FeedBurner. However, to make it more complete, I added the following steps: Too many...

Prototyping and Test Driven Development

over 5 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
Test-driven development is probably the hardest of the Agile methods to get used to doing. Since Rails makes web development so easy, it is not hard to...

Acts As Most Popular Rails Plugin

almost 6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
Make your models feel like they are in high school again. This plugin retrieves the most frequently occurring values for each column. It adds methods...

Rails Stats Plugin or Show Me Those Pretty Graphs

almost 6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
I present to all five of you, my very first Rails plugin. Rails Stats is a basic graphical version of the Rake 'stats' task. It generates a graph showing...

Chicago is Where its At

almost 6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
RailsConf was two weeks ago, TECHcocktail was on Thursday, TECHcoffee will be on Monday, and BARcamp is next weekend! ...

RailsConf Too Shall Pass

almost 6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
So it just finished, and I already can't wait until next year. The talks ranged from very general to very specific and were all pretty solid. My favorite...

Google Notebook vs. Backpack

~6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
I just read the announcement of Google Notebook. This sounds awfully like Backpack with a Firefox plugin component. A plugin can easily be created now...

Agile as a Lifestyle

~6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
When I first started learning about Agile Methodologies back in 1999 (called XP then), I wondered why people needed to read books and take classes on the...

SwitchTower ---> Capistrano

~6 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
What? Sounds like an Italian pasta dish. I guess Distribulator was already taken. I'm still going to call it SwitchTower. I'm starting a boycott. ...