Tag Archives: gist

Diving into OOC, a fun new programming language

November 12, 2009

OOC is cool. Yesterday I started writing some code in it after reading about it on the github blog. Here is the first result: I’m extremely happy with how well this performs. Using the latest ooc Java compiler from the github trunk to handle the each() functions, this compiles down to a bunch of C code, and then is automagically compiled behind the scenes into an ELF Binary! This is totally awesome, and I have to commend nddrylliog and the [...]

Ruby to generate RSS feeds for sites that don’t offer them

August 23, 2009

There’s this site that has an equipment exchange I wanted to keep track of. Yet, it’s done with what seems to be a custom php file rather than vbulletin, so none of the usual RSS feeds from the site apply to it. So, I decided to make a scraper/feed-generator to get me the latest version every 5 minutes and generate a nice RSS feed, so I can view it in Google Reader. The volume of posting is low enough that [...]

GitHub Gist Plugin

February 28, 2009

Look how awesome this plugin is! Just typing [gist id=”72075″] gets you: More information here. I wanted to change the appearance a little, so I did this to my theme in WordPress: I love that.