Friendships in Active Record
While working on Guten Dog my partners and I struggled with adding friendships to our User model via Active Record. For our app we needed to have mutual friendships. That is, Facebook-style friendships where a…
Read MoreGetting A Date with Wolfram|Alpha Part II: Creating a vis.js Timeline
Last time I wrote about working with the Wolfram|Alpha API I was strugly to parse dates and store them in a meaningful way. I had hoped that the Ruby wolfram-alpha gem could be coaxed…
Read MoreGetting a Date with Wolfram|Alpha (Part I)
This will be the first part in a series of posts about using the Wolfram|Alpha API to parse an English phrase and return a date or range of dates for a historical event, figure,…
Read MoreMarky Markov: Generating "Random" Text With Ruby
When I first signed up for Twitter as @skitelman in 2012 I thought I had declared myself the world's greatest Skittle's fan. I would tweet almost exclusively about Skittles and I would use twitter to…
Read MoreBorn to Dog Run: My Fight With The NYC OpenData Dog Run API
NYC OpenData API Last week I was introduced to the NYC OpenData API and I started poking around. I thought it would be fun to make a little program and see if the past few…
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