I got tired of Nike’s flash-based UI and I wanted to learn Ruby on Rails, so I’ve started work on a little RoR web app that allows people to create accounts, upload Nike+ XML files, and view their runs. To view an example, just log in as geoff with the password geoff. This thing is [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
XML Parsing in Ruby
Saturday, March 10, 2007
I've recently started learning Ruby (and Rails) after seeing a coworker use RoR to quickly throw together a web app with all the goodies: AJAX, MySQL backend, pretty Web 2.0 theme, etc. I've gotten rather tired of Nike's flash-based web app for their iPod sport kit, so I decided parsing the XML files on my [...]
Keep it simple, stupid.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
I was asked to write a linked list in C++ at a job interview today. Immediately I started working on classes and methods and whatnot, but I didn’t have enough time to get it fully working. I gave a poor impression and had to explain inserting into and deleting from linked lists on paper. Afterwards, [...]
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