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Jobs at Crowdcast

huned — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:10:13 +0000

I want a VP of Marketing and a Senior Software Engineer, and I want ‘em now. huned /at/ crowdcast /dot/ com.

VP Marketing

Senior Software Engineer

Emphasize a string in ruby

huned — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:36:07 +0000

It ain’t pretty or fast, but it is effective. Make it better.

Array#min, Array#max to get restrictive, permissive roles

huned — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:11:11 +0000

Just the interesting snippet:

monkey patch HTTParty to use a timeout

huned — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:29:35 +0000

I’m using HTTParty to write a client to an API I’m developing. One of the API calls is a setup thing and takes a long time to run, so HTTParty was barfing on timeouts. So I monkey patched HTTParty’s Request class to accept a timeout. No more barfs.

Crowdcast is hiring engineers

huned — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:59:23 +0000

Crowdcast is hiring! Email (h /at/ e-huned /dot/ com) or call (415-680-3935) if you are comforted by the idea of a company that actually generates revenue. We have a referral bonus if we hire someone you refer.

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huned — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:29:03 +0000

See how active someone’s friends are on Twitter

huned — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:55:40 +0000

Using the twitter API’s JSON response and httparty. In a pinch.

Still a mystery to me is why twitter hasn’t monetized at least one revenue model.

Another line graph: mean and standard deviation

huned — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:42:05 +0000

Make php bus error with zend framework

huned — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:22:09 +0000

If you ever wondered how to get Zend_Date to cause php to bus error, here’s how:

Executing it will give you this goodness in your apache error log:

[Tue Apr 28 15:17:38 2009] [notice] child pid 75456 exit signal Bus error (10)

I’m using php 5.2.9 and apache 2.2 on OSX. But you’ve probably never seen this because you made the right decision to not use PHP. Good for you.

Make Github’s gist embeds display properly

huned — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:49:38 +0000

Gist’s embeds currently have weird (ugly) overflow properties and font choice. I fixed it in my blog’s stylesheet. And then I gisted it. Meta.

Note. My terseness isn’t hatin’, just laziness. I like github and gist. Yay for github. But this one thing I just had to fix.