Ruby

What's the fastest way to sum up an Array in Ruby?

Let's say you have an array of numbers. How do you get the sum of them? One way is to iterate through the list and start adding them up one

Ruby

Ruby's Enumerable#find Method

Today we dive into Enumerable's #find/#detect method and how to use it effectively.

Automation

Gather Your Daily Digest with Huginn

If you find you have a bunch of different sites you want to read on a regular basis, it can be time consuming to go to each site. Furthermore, you

Automation

Gather Your Reading Material with Wallabag

It's easy to get lost in a rabbit hole where you want to read everything, but don't remember what you've read and what you haven't. For this, I use a

Automation

Automate Your Morning Routine

Alarms are annoying. They disturb your pleasant slumber, they're loud and obnoxious, and all they do is frustrate you – not a good way to start your day. We can make

Automation

Recompiling Sphinx Documentation While Writing

I first got the inspiration to make a personal wiki when I saw Nikita Voloboev's Everything I Know. There's a huge amount of information in here. While it may not

Automation

Automatically Start Your Apps

Automatically starting applications up when you first log into your computer can be a nice time saver. Start your computer up, log in, then go get yourself a cup of

Automation

Automation Of The Day - A New Series

My life is too busy to be spending time on mundane tasks. Today, I start a new series, entitled "Automation Of The Day", the goal being taking tasks that take

diaspora

Running a Diaspora* Pod

A few months ago, I was reading up on alternative social networking sites to Facebook. I find their privacy policy too invasive, and now I only use it when required.

hyperboria

Installing and Configuring CJDNS on Ubuntu Linux

This was adapted from https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Install_on_Ubuntu Installation The standard CJDNS install information is good, but doesn't have any support for restarting when your server restarts.

Ruby

Utilizing ActiveRecord Enums In The View

Rails 4.1 added support for Enums to be used in models. You can check out the release notes here. Generally, these are supposed to be used for tracking internal states and should not be exposed to the user. If you're a rebel however,

Facebook

It's Time To Ditch Facebook Chat

tl;dr I want to ditch Facebook Chat, and I want you to join me. Scroll to the bottom for my proposal. Unfortunately, I've been stuck using Facebook Chat for

Coding For Users: First Feelings From Coding A Product For Others

I spend a lot of time writing code. It's what I get paid to do, and it's one of my favourite pasttimes. At work, most of my design is based

Employment

Developers: Put Your Code Online

Despite having only been in the software development industry for a few short years, I've been lucky enough to participate in several interviews. In fact, I've interviewed close to 50 people for positions ranging from interns to senior developers (one of which had about

Windows

Installing RMagick Gem On Windows With RubyInstaller

At work, I'm trying to get a copy of Redmine running on a Windows box (unfortunately I don't have a *nix box to use). I found the RailsInstaller package that sets you up with a solid base package, but in order to use Redmine

Twitter

Here's How You Should Handle Data Breaches

Only a few hours ago, Buffer, the web app for posting to social networking sites on a schedule, was hacked. A bunch of accounts hooked up to the service started sending out spam messages. This is always a rough position to be in. You

uTorrent

Why You Should Stop Using uTorrent

In the latest version of the popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent, someone discovered something fishy after the installation. All of a sudden, their browser homepage had changed, to Yahoo! no less. Turns out that uTorrent is sneakily putting a 3rd party application install as

Bruce Schneier

Encryption for The Technologically Lazy, Pt. 1 - Your Android Phone

Let's start with some assumptions first: You're one of those people who claims that they don't care about the government looking into their email. (See: "there's nothing I'm embarrassed about in there"). You think that encrypting your life is a huge inconvenience.