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Using RMagick with Flickr

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
In my previous article, Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick, I showed how you can use RMagick to generate a lovely collage from a selection...

Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
Yesterday I was glancing Douglas Bowman’s Photo gallery and a fun idea came to me. Inspired by using photo slides on a light table, Douglas employs...

TextMate-like Template Syntax for RADRails

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
Now TextMate users can migrate to RADRails even easier after their 30-day Trial period is over. I have gone through most of the Rails commands in TextMate...

Converting Documents to Unicode

almost 6 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
Earlier this summer I moved my company’s website to a new server and upgraded all of the software to the latest versions. The upgrade when remarkably...

Installing Rails and Mongrel on a Shared Host

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
In some situations you may find yourself needing to install mongrel or other ruby gems in a shared environment and the documentation out there for taking...

250 RadRails Templates

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
Dr. Nic has converted all of the Textmate snippets to RadRails templates. All 250 of them. RADRails will include these templates in the new version...

Multiple Concurrent Database Connections with ActiveRecord

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
ActiveRecord is a great tool to use for database maintenance as I explored in my previous article, Using ActiveRecord for Simple Maintenance Scripting,...

Getting Data from MySQL into Excel

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
The other title of this article could be Outputting data from MySQL into a Comma Separated Value file (.csv) Short and sweet, this article is more for...

Send me your favorite vi Commands and Stories

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
Vi has been around for over 30 years now and in celebration of that we are compiling a list of obscure vi/vim commands and anecdotes. Send your submission...

Scraping Gmail with Mechanize and Hpricot

over 5 years ago by Corban Brook on schadenfreude.
This quick tutorial will show you how to use mechanize and hpricot to login to gmail and return a list of Unread emails....