Comments on: Odds and Ends http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends Rachel Blum on Software, Games And The Rest Of Life Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Groby Unplugged » Blog Archive » The Pain - Ruby and OSX http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12918 Groby Unplugged » Blog Archive » The Pain - Ruby and OSX Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:51:54 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12918 <p>[...] Remember how I asked for advice on generating local RSS feeds a couple of days ago? My old colleague Brian pointed me to the RubyRSS package, a fairly simple interface to RSS generation. Easy, you think - after all, it’s Ruby, we have gems. Let’s use it. [...]</p> [...] Remember how I asked for advice on generating local RSS feeds a couple of days ago? My old colleague Brian pointed me to the RubyRSS package, a fairly simple interface to RSS generation. Easy, you think – after all, it’s Ruby, we have gems. Let’s use it. [...]

]]> By: Brian http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12591 Brian Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:18:34 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12591 <p>If you google 'file access monitor windows' you find a lot of little 2-bit apps that provide some ugly gui into what you're describing--monitoring files and directories for changes. Something tells me there's a WinAPI call or some COM object that lets you hook into these events.</p> If you google ‘file access monitor windows’ you find a lot of little 2-bit apps that provide some ugly gui into what you’re describing–monitoring files and directories for changes. Something tells me there’s a WinAPI call or some COM object that lets you hook into these events.

]]> By: Administrator http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12590 Administrator Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:05:02 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12590 <p>Awesome - thanks for the leads. Now I just need to get FAM working on Windows :) (Yeah, I forgot to mention that. Sorry!)</p> Awesome – thanks for the leads. Now I just need to get FAM working on Windows :) (Yeah, I forgot to mention that. Sorry!)

]]> By: Brian http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12583 Brian Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:25:44 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12583 <p>You could probably hook into FAM for file changes... http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/</p> <p>Here's a python interface to the daemon http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/</p> <p>and a ruby interface http://pablotron.org/software/fam-ruby/</p> <p>Smush it together with http://www.rubyrss.com/ and you've got yourself a product</p> You could probably hook into FAM for file changes… http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

Here’s a python interface to the daemon http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/

and a ruby interface http://pablotron.org/software/fam-ruby/

Smush it together with http://www.rubyrss.com/ and you’ve got yourself a product

]]> By: Robert Blum http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12260 Robert Blum Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:33:03 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12260 <p>Thanks for the feedback, guys. I'll give Safari another spin soon - it's always good to have more resources available.</p> <p>But I agree with Paul - reading books is just more pleasant than on-screen reading. That's why I'd never by a novel for online consumption - but reference books are almost made for the Internet.</p> <p>As for my RSS feed - looks like I need to do it myself - the Intarweb remained silent on my request ;)</p> Thanks for the feedback, guys. I’ll give Safari another spin soon – it’s always good to have more resources available.

But I agree with Paul – reading books is just more pleasant than on-screen reading. That’s why I’d never by a novel for online consumption – but reference books are almost made for the Internet.

As for my RSS feed – looks like I need to do it myself – the Intarweb remained silent on my request ;)

]]> By: veridicus http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-12023 veridicus Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:37:24 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-12023 <p>Safari is great for general reference. It's definitely lacking in game programming and other specific programming areas. I can't think of any apps for the RSS feed you're looking for, but it should be trivial to whip up a cron in Python to generate the RSS.</p> Safari is great for general reference. It’s definitely lacking in game programming and other specific programming areas. I can’t think of any apps for the RSS feed you’re looking for, but it should be trivial to whip up a cron in Python to generate the RSS.

]]> By: pauldwaite http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends/comment-page-1#comment-11931 pauldwaite Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:13:50 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/02/02/odds-and-ends#comment-11931 <p>I've been on Safari for years because it's extremely convenient for looking up stuff both at work and at home, and it feels cheaper than buying a bunch of books.</p> <p>But I really do miss physical books. Reading from them is much more pleasant, and easier on the eyes, than reading from a screen. And I feel my recall of information I've read is much better if it's from a physical book (I suspect some research will support this too).</p> I’ve been on Safari for years because it’s extremely convenient for looking up stuff both at work and at home, and it feels cheaper than buying a bunch of books.

But I really do miss physical books. Reading from them is much more pleasant, and easier on the eyes, than reading from a screen. And I feel my recall of information I’ve read is much better if it’s from a physical book (I suspect some research will support this too).

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