Dave Elkins » code http://daveelkins.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Introducing GroopBuyr gem http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:24:31 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=202 I have built and release the GroopBuyr gem at http://github.com/elkinsware/groopbuyr. This is a simple wrapper around the GroopBuy API to get deals through their api.

GroopBuy is a company that aggregates deals from many sites like GroupOn, LivingSocial and others so you can find all the deals for a city in one place. The API is really simple and easy to use.

You can install it by running this command:
gem install groopbuyr

You can see the code at http://github.com/elkinsware/groopbuyr.

Let me know what you think.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/feed/ 0 Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:07:01 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=195 http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text

http://particletree.com/notebook/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/

http://wufoo.com/

http://wufoo.com/2008/09/16/report-upgrades-and-new-graphs/

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.hexdec.php#74092

http://www.barelyfitz.com/

http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/feed/ 0 Slides from LA Ruby Conf about Ruby and GC http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/slides-from-la-ruby-conf-about-ruby-and-gc/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/slides-from-la-ruby-conf-about-ruby-and-gc/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:23:49 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=193 http://timetobleed.com/garbage-collection-slides-from-la-ruby-conference/

It goes into a lot of details about how ruby allocates memory and how the GC works.  Also, talks about tracking down memory leaks.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/slides-from-la-ruby-conf-about-ruby-and-gc/feed/ 0 EdgeRails.info has good look at scopes in Rails 3 http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/edgerails-info-has-good-look-at-scopes-in-rails-3/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/edgerails-info-has-good-look-at-scopes-in-rails-3/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:07:29 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=190 http://edgerails.info/articles/what-s-new-in-edge-rails/2010/02/23/the-skinny-on-scopes-formerly-named-scope/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/24/edgerails-info-has-good-look-at-scopes-in-rails-3/feed/ 0 A good post by Mike Subelsky about Ruby Queues http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/18/a-good-post-by-mike-subelsky-about-ruby-queues/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/18/a-good-post-by-mike-subelsky-about-ruby-queues/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:31:26 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=188 http://www.subelsky.com/2010/02/using-rubys-queue-class-to-manage-inter.html

A good post by Mike Subelsky about Ruby Queues.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/18/a-good-post-by-mike-subelsky-about-ruby-queues/feed/ 1 The problem with passwords by A List Apart http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:00 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=186 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-problem-with-passwords/

An interesting article about making password entry a little more user friendly and the hazards.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/feed/ 0 Carsonifed.com post: Bulletproof backups for MySQL http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:53:54 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=173 http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/feed/ 0 Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:33:42 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=170 Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached

http://plasti.cx/2010/02/03/getting-passenger-to-play-nice-with-interlock-cache_fu-and-memcached

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/feed/ 0 Where did the scripts go? from lindsaar.net http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/where-did-the-scripts-go-from-lindsaar-net/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/where-did-the-scripts-go-from-lindsaar-net/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:35:20 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=168 Rails 3 Scripts have moved find where to find them: http://lindsaar.net/2010/2/3/where-did-the-scripts-go

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/where-did-the-scripts-go-from-lindsaar-net/feed/ 0 More Rails 3 post! http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/01/more-rails-3-post/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/01/more-rails-3-post/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:30 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=164 SafeBuffers by Katz – http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0

New Validation Methods by lindsaar.net – http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/31/validates_rails_3_awesome_is_true

rails-upgrade plugin by omgboglol – http://omgbloglol.com/post/364624593/rails-upgrade-is-now-an-official-plugin

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