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Ruby on GChart

Damien — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:47:55 +0000

When you’re looking to create charts in Ruby, you might spend quite some time searching a cool tool. I’ve been, for example, falling on gruff this morning. But the graphs created with that kind of tools are always dependant of some libraries, and many times, they don’t look very nice. So I’ve been working on something new, using [...]

Rails : number of test and code lines

Damien — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:16:46 +0000

I’m a bit obsessed by my applications statistics. So on many of them, I build tools allowing me to generate graphics with several evolution indicators of theirs datas over time. On RefStats for example, this graphic shows the evolution of the number of positions; the number of users; of websites and the average execution time for the [...]

Do You Know RefStats ?

Damien — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:50:31 +0000

You probably don’t RefStats was my end of studies project. However I’ve decided to keep maintaining it even after losing my student status. It offers you statistics about your ranking on search engines (Google in many languages and Yahoo!). And it’s available in English since the last friday The big difference between RefStats and any other [...]

Friday Playlist : the collaborative music playlist

Damien — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:50:32 +0000

After my last week post « help me make my playlist » (fr), we’ve decided with Romain, to develop the concept. It’s, for now, only a simple wordpress which will have two posts each week : - One on monday morning, that’ll invite any user to share his prefered musics. - One on thursday evening, giving the spotify link to [...]

Add TinyMCE to a Django admin field

Damien — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:49:58 +0000

The Django’s automatic administration generator is nice. With three lines, you have an interface to add, update and delete datas. However with textareas, it might be useful to have a more advanced editor. So we’re going to see here, how to implement TinyMCE to the textareas in a specific administration page. But this technic can also work with [...]

Ruby : use Active Record without Rails

Damien — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:00:47 +0000

If you’ve already been using Active Record. And as you’re reading this blog and this article, I suppose you have, even though you may not know you have, you know how it is powerful. In case your memory fails you, active record is the list of methods used to access databases in Ruby on Rails. It is [...]

Create an HTTP authentication with Zend Framework

Damien — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:07:53 +0000

Zend Framework implements some functions that allows Authentication.. In this article, we’ll see how to implement it on MVC application. Zend provides an adapter, Zend_Auth_Adapter_Digest, which allows you to check a login and password with a file and do what you wish to do if it’s not correct. But you still need to show the login form and [...]

7 Facts About Me

Damien — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:32:43 +0000

I’ve been tagged by Otto to do this little game. The rules: Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. Let them know they’ve been tagged. 7 facts about myself [...]

Broken RSS feed

Damien — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:56:35 +0000

As you might already know, Google is currently migrating feedburner accounts to a new system working with Google accounts. However, as a change, the thing doesn’t seem to be working. Result : even though they’re saying my feeds have been successfully migrated, I don’t have access to them anymore. So I had to create new ones. And I [...]

Ruby vs PHP : count the number of words in a text

Damien — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:05:26 +0000

This is the first article of a serie of comparisons between PHP and Ruby. Count the number of words in a text is much more complex than what you should think first. Because a space doesn’t mean a new word everytime. There can be interrogation points with spaces before and after for example. And an interrogation point [...]