http://craigjolicoeur.com code with a purpose Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:40:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've updated the ParseHTML code on github to the latest 1.12 version. I haven't done much work with the ParseHTML library, simply because I wasn't actively doing development on the ClothBlue HTML-to-Markdown library. ClothBlue is the reason I wrote ParseHTML in the first place. Well, I've had some downtime ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/08/parsehtml-112-released/ $ history 1000 | \ awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | \ sort -rn | head 123 git 80 ruby 71 gs 43 cls 20 git-wtf 18 ll 17 rake 17 gba 16 cd 12 vim I guess you can say I took the git plunge whole-heartedly. The gs, gba, and git-wtf commands are all git aliases ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/08/my-bash-history/ I had the need to use the old in_place_editor functionality in a new Rails app that I'm working on. I hadn't used the functionality for a while now and using it in a Rails 2.x environment is a bit different than in a Rails 1.x environment so I thought ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/rails-2x-in-place-editor/ I came across an article on Michael Minella's blog the other day about continually adding new tools to the programming tool box. Specifically, Michael references on of the tenets of the Pragmatic Programmer to learn at least one new programming language every year. That got me thinking and challenged me ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/learn-a-new-programming-language/ The Wordpress application for the iPhone has been released. In fact, I'm making this post from my iPhone to test it out. Go grab it from the AppStore and give it a try. http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/wordpress-app-for-iphone/ Late last night I was *lucky* enough to be included in a mass mailing from a *recruiter* who was looking to fill some Ruby on Rails positions. From: Pradipta Archiputra I have a couple of Ruby on Rails position, wanted to know if you are interested? Max Archie Technical Recruiter Prodigus Source Cell: 219-669-9216 Phone: 312-235-2365 Max@prodigussource.com In ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/pradiptas-rolodex-laughs-from-the-internets/ If you are like me, you do quite a bit of connecting to remote servers via SSH. Well, here is a quick timesaving hint to save you a few keystrokes. Instead of having to type ssh username@hostname.com from the command line to connect to your server each time, wouldn't it be ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/ssh-config-aliases/ The latest version of WordPress has been released. You can download version 2.6 while it's hot (or you can wait a few days until it cools off a bit if that's your style). I've been using 2.6 on a few projects for the past few weeks and it ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/wordpress-26-released/ I just recently came across an issue where I couldn't figure out why my list items <li> tags where being indented in IE6. My CSS file had the proper margins and paddings set and, naturally, it worked fine in every single other browser except IE6. Well, it turns ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/li-indentation-in-ie6/ I ran into a situation today while working on a client project that was resulting in some "funky" output. I've been using Bob Aman's standard FeedTools library to grab and parse some RSS feeds for output in a WordPress site. Now, it was obvious to me this had something to ... http://craigjolicoeur.com/2008/07/ruby-iconv-to-the-rescue/