August 22nd, 2009 in Insight
If you are living on ruby world, railscasts probably sound familiar on you ears. Railscasts is a screencast blog created by Ryan Bates, that gives you guidelines, tips, and many others. I have downloaded all of episodes, and have watched most of them, then I think of just one word to describe all of it, awesome!.
Benefits of watching railscasts, are surely, to improve you coding skills on Ruby on Rails. If you watch…
August 21st, 2009 in Programming
Web scraping is a technique to grab -then extract- information from internet. Other terminology of web scraping is ‘beyond browser activity’, a browsing activity without a browser. Once you understand how web scraping works, and mastering technique(s) how to do that, you will find new feeling of freedom on the information access.
The most basic of web scraping is copy paste activity. You find useful information, then select, copy, then paste it. This basic technique doesn’t require any programming knowledge.…
August 20th, 2009 in Recipes
Connecting to remote computer via SSH protocol will always be fun. Above all, it’s secure. This connection usually run on port 22, and use combination of username and password to connect on remote host. Because everything is encrypted, this connection is a little bit slower than other protocols. That’s ok, since the connection more secure ;).
Recently, I moved my hosting to Site5. Site5’s hosting features that offer SSH access drive me faster to…
August 16th, 2009 in Recipes
So.. you have a domain, like example.com, then you have an account on OpenID provider, like example.myopenid.com. You make a blog on your domain, and use your OpenID if you connected with web that support it. Now the question is why don’t you use your domain as your OpenID? so you can use only ONE name, not two. Don’t think it will be difficult, it is absolutely very simple.
One thing that you have to…
August 16th, 2009 in Web Application
What is snippet? according to the Wikipedia, snippet is a small region of re-usable source code, machine code or text. Is it matter? Of course, if you are a programmer or a designer that use small portion of codes/text frequently, you will be aware about it.
Previously snippets was saved on native snippet management that built on text editor/IDE. As the internet using becomes larger, now snippets have special places (repository) that have ability…