crunchlife: Tag Inspiration

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0

Ryan Baxter — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:17:00 -0700

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Robert Martin's "Twenty-Five Zeros" Keynote at RailsConf 2010

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:04:00 -0700

Hello MongoDB

Ryan Baxter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:11:00 -0800

In an effort to jump-start my creativity, I thought I’d hop on the NoSQL train and work up a little “Hello World” app using MongoDB with Sinatra and MongoMapper. In a later project I’ll be throwing Haml into the mix and working completely outside of my comfort zone. Dependencies be damned!

require 'rubygems'
require 'mongo_mapper'
require 'sinatra'

MongoMapper.connection = Mongo::Connection.new('localhost')
MongoMapper.database = 'messages'

class Message
  include MongoMapper::Document
  key :message, String
  key :ip_address, String
  timestamps!
end

get '/' do
  Message.all.map { |m|
    time = m.created_at.localtime
    "On #{ time.strftime('%m/%d/%Y') } at " \
    "#{ time.strftime('%I:%M %p')} <strong>#{ m.ip_address }</strong> said, " \
    "<strong>\"#{ m.message }\"</strong>"
  }.join "<br />"
end

get '/:message' do
  Message.create(:message => params[:message], :ip_address => @env['REMOTE_ADDR']).save
  redirect '/'
end

On 02/17/2010 at 10:13 PM 127.0.0.1 said, “Hello World!”

Data Visualization in the AlloSphere

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:42:00 -0700

Where is _why?

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:20:00 -0700

Why the lucky stiff speaking at the Carnegie Mellon Art and Code Symposium. If the rumors are true, you’ll be missed.

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

Fork Ruby?

Ryan Baxter — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:49:00 -0800

Dave Thomas speaking at the 2008 RubyConf.

Anders Hejlsberg: Where are Programming Languages Going?

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:11:00 -0800

Anders Hejlsberg speaking at the JAOO 2008 conference about the future of programming languages.

iHologram

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:00 -0700

An application written by David OReilly gives Apple’s iPhone the illusion of an animated hologram. The trick uses a technique called perspectival anamorphosis. A tabletop surface provides the needed viewing angle of between 35 and 45 degrees.

Thank You Professor Pausch

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:45:00 -0700

The passing of Randy Pausch was posted this morning on Slashdot. Randy was a brilliant professor, technologist, husband, and father. Though I was never fortunate to have studied under professor Pausch, his “Last Lecture” has been inspirational to myself and many others. He will be missed.

Dinosaur on the Loose!

Ryan Baxter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:52:00 -0700

A dinosaur at the LA Museum of Natural History inspects a group of children. Watching them run away at the end of the video – Priceless.

These are a Few of My Favorite Things

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:17:00 -0700

A few of my favorite applications published major releases this week. The most known being the Firefox web browser. On Tuesday, the Mozilla team launched version 3 of their flagship product, Mozilla Firefox. It includes many bug fixes and an enhanced bookmarking system (love it). Within 24 hours, Firefox wracked up over 8 million downloads making it the most downloaded software ever.

The venerable Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) project finally reached version 1.0. For those not familiar with Unix-like operating systems, Wine allows users to execute Microsoft Windows programs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It’s a must have for those who just can’t quite give up their favorite Windows software.

This may not be considered a major release, but the folks at reddit have announced the open-sourcing of their social news website, reddit.com. IMO reddit.com takes the best elements of both slashdot.org and digg.com and combines them to make something even better. Kudos reddit, Mozilla, and Wine!

DIY Multi-Touch Pad

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:04:00 -0700

Festo Air Jelly

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:08:00 -0700

Amazing. I’d love to see more natural design in programming languages.

Boston Dynamics Big Dog March 2008

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:40:00 -0700