programming
Send yourself a text message with Twilio’s excellent Python library
This weekend at Midsouth Tech Corner I decided to see if I could write a program to send myself an SMS using Twilio. I tried Coffeescript/Node.js for a bit but got bogged down in my own lack of knowledge about sending an https POST with specific parameters. The node libraries for Twilio aren’t fully baked [read more...]
Likelihood a user of one of these languages will be interested in Clojure
Ada and Scala developers appear to be seven times more likely than C# developers to be interested in Clojure. While the small sample size and overall selection bias makes the Clojure survey not entirely authoritative, I found the process of compiling the ratio to be interesting. Sources: Survey of 487 Clojurians TIOBE programming index for [read more...]
Formatting as code: Haml versus embedded Ruby
Digging deeper into Rails programming styles The last Sharing at Work post showed how to set up a Rails development environment using a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine. This week, I’m in the midst of developing my first ground-up public-facing web application using Ruby on Rails. Learning a new way to dynamically generate HTML My Rails development [read more...]
Get started building web apps with your own Ruby on Rails virtual development server
Today we’re going to take a detour into web programming using Ruby on Rails. The hardest part for me has been getting the development environment up and running. Some guides will walk you through setting up Ruby and then Rails directly on your Windows machine, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. You’ll soon grow tired [read more...]
Get started building your own web apps with the Google App Engine
I’ve only been at this for an hour or so, and already I’ve gotten a dev environment installed and working properly on this Vista laptop. This is a big step up from my attempts to install & run Ruby on Rails via Ubuntu Linux. I’m stepping through the Google App Engine howto docs if you [read more...]
