Mandarin Soda

The Android development environment is pretty darn slick…if you already haven’t or are stuck on the iPhone bandwagon, by all means take a look:
Android

Is everyone on Twitter now?

I recently played around with adding FedEx shipping services to the active_shipping plugin and found a bit of confusion online in regards to how to hit FedEx depending upon the style of service being exposed. Somewhat confusingly, FedEx has non-SOAP services as well as SOAP services that you can hit restfully in an HTTPS [...]

While I’ve been tinkering with fleshing out my custom DataMapper adapter for MailChimp, I decided to start adding more functionality to my Rails/ActiveRecord plugin. I’ve upgraded to the most recent MailChimp APIs and am in the process of adding campaign management functionality. Drop me a line if you want to fork and patch what [...]

For any folks out there struggling to get the Ruby OAuth gem working with Netflix authentication, here’s a quick run down on how to get started.
The 0.2.7 version of Ruby OAuth isn’t totally compatible with the Netflix authentication APIs. However, thanks to the grooviness that it is GitHub, Rob Ares graciously forked the OAuth [...]

Triumph at a Star Wars opening. Funny stuff.

I might be the last person to know these things, but if you wish to invoke a rake task within another rake task, here’s the syntax:
Rake::Task["thinking_sphinx:index"].invoke
And, if you happen to get funky “bad minute” errors when trying to setup said rake task via cron, make sure your cron command fits on one line while ediiting [...]

Love it. Song to celebrate my new fish.

What a great week if you’re a jellyfish or one of the world’s largest oil companies. Can’t be related can it?

Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him [...]