John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general

Take Me Somewhere Rework

john — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:56:24 +0000

Over the weekend I knocked out a new code base for TakeMeSomewhere.org. It’s not much, just a new look and feel as well as some back end work so that I can get fancy later. Check It Out

MySQL & Ruby on Debian (sidux)

john — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:37:08 +0000

I’ve started learning Ruby on Rails, and I needed the mysql driver. Should be simple, right? Just gem install mysql or something? It wasn’t. root@asuka:~# gem install mysql Building native extensions. This could take a while... [...]

ImageMagick Thumbnails and Contact Sheets

john — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:59:11 +0000

Wow, long time no post. Darcy and I got a digital camera about a week ago, a Nikon D90. We haven’t really had a chance to put it through it’s paces, but we’ve taken a few pictures around the house to play with it. At about 3mb each (JPEG’s) the images are really slow [...]

Amarok REST API

john — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:33:31 +0000

I’ve been working on the guts of a REST API for Amarok though PHP and DCOP. Thought I’d share my JSON format because I’m proud of it. Also because I’m bound to lose the format file sooner or later. There are two basic things you can do with Amarok: take an action and ask [...]

Making DCOP work with Apache and PHP

john — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:17:42 +0000

I’ve been working on a design for a web technology based media frame (think digital photo frame that you can program). I have my hardware ducks in a row (ripped apart a laptop, rewired some buttons and flipped the screen around) and now I’m working on software. I put together a reasonable frame [...]

Gmail Attachment Gets Stuck Scanning For Virus

john — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:06:09 +0000

I’ve been having trouble with Gmail for my domain getting stuck scanning for viruses on my attachments, which means I can’t download them, which is annoying. I got fed up with waiting for Gmail, so I just got them through the old fashioned means. Here’s how… Attachment is stuck… View the original message… What that looks like (click image for [...]

Fun Holiday Message

john — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:40:21 +0000

I made a cool holiday message today for my new job at REBEL INTERACTIVE, it’s a fridge with magnets that you can use to make and send messages. I think it’s rad. Check it out: http://rebel-interactive.com/fridge/

Move Subversion repository without svnadmin

john — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:32:21 +0000

Update (2008-11-13)Okay, so I did actually end up finding a way to move from SF.net for real. It seems they provide read-only rsync access straight to the repository directory. So here is what I did instead. $ rsync -av blowpass.svn.sourceforge.net::svn/blowpass/* blowpass $ svnadmin dump blowpass/ > blowpass.dump $ svnadmin create clearpass $ svnadmin load clearpass < blowpass.dump Update [...]

Pumpkins

john — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:45:37 +0000

We carved pumpkins this weekend, something I haven’t done in a long time. Here they are, Mine Darcy’s Ryan’s Nan’s

Better libcurl from C++

john — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:55:45 +0000

I’ve been a longtime fan of libcurl. But I’m a C++ author and so the c level of that is not where I want to be (and cURLpp looks ungainly for my minor usage). Firing up google on “libcurl C++” yields “Using libcurl from C++ | Luckyspin.org” as the #1 entry. This article show a [...]