Schadenfreude

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 other contributors for their work on this awesome project.  Now I should use it for something useful :D

A quick note about getting it running on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
git clone git://github.com/nddrylliog/ooc.git
cd ooc
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/ make

At least, that’s how I did it. Then I compile all my ooc with a Makefile like this:

INPUTS=$(wildcard *.ooc)
TARGETS=$(patsubst %.ooc, %, $(INPUTS))

all: $(TARGETS)

%: %.ooc
  java -jar ~/repos/ooc/bin/ooc.jar $@

That will compile all ooc files in the directory.

Uncategorized awesome, code, gist, github, irc, language, ooc

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 this won’t be annoying to see in my daily feeds.

I usually use Ruby for this because it offers Hpricot, a very nice and fast scraper and XPath interface. This time, I resolved to find something that does RSS generation better, and I stumbled upon RubyRSS, which happens to be in the core ruby distribution!
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Uncategorized code, generation, gist, github, rss, ruby, rubyrss, scraping, web, xpath

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.

Uncategorized css, gist, git, github, paste, plugin, wordpress

For all you coders out there wanting to show off all those forked repositories, the github-widget is for you.

There are a few ways to install.

1. Download from here.  The most recent stable release will be available.  As of this writing, it’s REL-1.3.
2. Clone the git repository: git clone git://github.com/hank/github-widget.git
3. Get it through Wordpress (Work in Progress)

If you use one of the first 2 methods, just drop the resultant directory into wp-content/plugins/.

Using any of the three methods, after you have it installed, go to the Admin panel, Plugins -> Installed.  Then, activate the plugin.  Then, go to Appearance -> Widgets.  Put it into a sidebar, and go look at the results.

Please report any errors or problems as a comment to this post.

UPDATE: I just found out that my minimal searching for ‘Github’ in the plugins area, which found no results when I tried it, was insufficient.  I should have used Google.  Oh, well – at least I know how a widget works now!

Uncategorized git, github, plugin, programming, revision control, widget, wordpress

After obsessing over it today, I decided to write a quick primer on RSA Encryption you can do in your head. It’s pretty simple, and to the point. The numbers are very small. Try it out!

I plan to write some code implementing the algorithm.  That should be fun.

Uncategorized code, encryption, github, learning, rsa, security