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Are you a programmer? Do you hate any process that involves SSH’ing into a server and editing files directly in production? Would you like to get rid of this non-source controlled hackery? Damn right you would!
If you’re deploying an application to a server, get [...]
This past week I did some work on Scrawlers to align any search credit received from links to both the scrawlers.com and www.scrawlers.com addresses. I was reminded of this “must do” by Patrick McKenzie over at MicroISV on a Shoestring. Naturally it took me a few months to deal with the issue, but [...]
Today I had a fun trial-and-error exploration of Ruby SOAP messaging. By “fun” I mean “hair-rippingly excruciating.”
Basic SOAP calls are pretty easy with the wsdlDriver inherent in Ruby. Here’s how you’d wrap MailBuild’s Subscriber.Add function in Ruby:
require ’soap/wsdlDriver’
class MailBuildWrapper
attr_accessor :api_key, :list_id
def initialize(api_key, list_id) @api_key = api_key @list_id = list_id [...]
Everyone knows someone who claims to have invented a national catch phrase. For instance, “take a chill pill” originated at my middle school. And I invented the term “redonkulous.” Well, it was either me or one of two friends. The term did not originate with The O.C. as Urban Dictionary describes.
Well, [...]
Today is the one-year anniversary of me stepping out on my own. Frankly, it blows my mind that it has already been a year. What a leap I took! I’m nothing but happy with the decision, even if I’m not exactly where I hoped to be at the one-year mark.
I’m proud to [...]
Mark King, from the great Level 42, bassin’ it up.