Archive for April, 2008

The Value of Design, pt. 1

For some time now I have wanted to post about the value of creativity and original design in software development. Much has been written in the last couple years about the importance of presentation in the Mac community. Forget lickable, nowadays a good Mac app needs to be downright delicious. But less has been said […]

Automated battery monitor

Woot is all charged up over 4/1.
Antidote:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require “hpricot”
require “open-uri”

def growl ( title, message )
system “growlnotify”, “-m”, message, “-t”, title
end

while (1)
begin
doc = Hpricot( open(”http://www.woot.com/”) )
item = (doc/”h3#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_TitleHeader”).text
[…]


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