Download the trendy gem, or visit the github for trendy. — I’ve made another gem! It’s called Trendy, and it is a simple wrapper for the Twitter Search API, but the only the part of it that concerns trending topics. I’ve initially made it pretty simple, so I was able to learn a lot about [...]
Introducing Trendy
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:gem·github·rails·ruby·ruby on rails·twitter
Organizing my personal brand
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’ve done some shuffling around with my online properties recently. I created a front page for paulfedory.com. It’s quite simple, and includes links to all the major online profiles that I care about. I think it’s important to take control of what’s being said about you on the web, and by providing links to my [...]
Tags:branding·facebook·github·last.fm·stackoverflow·twitter
Introducing YamlSeeder
January 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Download the gem here (gemcutter.org) Visit the GitHub source here (github.com) — I’ve finally created a gem for Ruby on Rails apps. It’s called YamlSeeder, and its at version 0.0.1, naturally. YamlSeeder takes foxy-fixture-like YAML files and seeds them into your Rails app, using ActiveRecord. Why I Made It Originally, I stored all my seed [...]