Category Archives: Dev
The Magic Ruby vs the Url of Excel: a short story with long code
Once there was a hacker who needed to rescue a beautiful princess from her prison on a creaking ship moored in the middle of the sky. He made it onto the noisy old ship, slipped past the guards and tiptoed down the swaying halls to the room where she wept, chained to an excel spreadsheet.
Installing the Android Developer Tools for Eclipse
If you’re trying to install the Android Developer Tools on Ubuntu and it keeps failing on a strange error:
An error occurred while installing the items
session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null –> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.
Here’s your solution:
sudo apt-get install eclipse-pde
Worked for me, found it here.
LibraryDroid tracks your books
Here’s me: I have an android phone, I can program, I use LibraryThing for tracking my books. Here’s how those things come together.
Also posted in Hacks, Python, Ruby, Software Tagged android, LibraryThing, Python, Ruby, scripting Leave a comment
Project Idea: Dasher for Android
Dasher is a text entry method completely unlike a keyboard. You just swipe and like a video game you navigate through the possible sentences you could be writing.
Check the demo:
I like the idea that you are just navigating through the Borgesian infinite library to extract your sentences.
Dasher is free and GPL, it just hasn’t [...]
Also posted in Get.rich.quick, Software Tagged android, borges, dasher, infinity, text entry 4 Comments
Project Idea: WordpRSS
If you log into the dashboard screen of your Wordpress install, you should be able to see feeds of your choice. And do something with them!
Also posted in Software, rss, wordpress Tagged braindump, feeds, ideas, my.own.cloud, projects, rss, syndication, vaporware, wordpress Leave a comment
Project Idea: AutoThemer
A wordpress plugin that rethemes your site automatically.
Mixins, Django, Python and adding to Models
I’m working with my buddy ADubs, esq. on a project where we make it easier to add federation to various models. We’re properly lazy programmers, so we don’t want to rewrite federation for each model we are creating, we just want to mix it in as a general set of functionality. Below the fold, [...]
Also posted in Django, Python Tagged django, federation, minaproject, mixins, models, Python Leave a comment
The NYC Government IT has given up.
My buddy Ian has a great post about his experience trying to find out if he had to move his car. Seems the DOT updates this info on Twitter rather than putting it out on their own website.
Now that’s just crazy, but I know why. Sam used to work for the city and [...]
New article on how to set CGI:IRC as Firefox’s IRC protocol handler
I really like to overdo things. In the overdoing spirit of the Thanksgiving season, I overdid something recently.
When I clicked on an irc link to a chatroom, it didn’t open in my preferred IRC client, which is on my webserver. I like to run my applications off of my webserver because I don’t have [...]
How to show WordPress page hierarchies