Archive: Coding category
I've been porting the BYUFHLC to PHP, and it's coming along pretty well in spite of a number of mini-setbacks. The only tricky part was figuring out how to parse the HTML from the screenscrape. At first I was going to use Troy Wolf's class_http, but it ...
Last week on Top of the Mountains I mentioned my FHLC/UVRFHC mashup (which I'm now calling BYUFHLC). It's written in Ruby on Rails and is 75% done (I just have to add support for the non-place searches, like surname and such). Here at the Center for Family ...
I'm going to learn to code PostScript. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, and then today I found this page, which has links to Thinking in PostScript, the Red Book, the Blue Book, and the Green Book, so I certainly have enough reading material ...
Some of our projects at work have been using ActiveXZip, a free zip compression library. The only problem is, it apparently doesn't work with ASP.NET 2.0 (we upgraded recently). Nor do I particularly care for the annoying splash screen that comes up whenever you initialize it.
My co-worker ...
I've gotten a quick prototype of Beyond up even faster than I expected. It's the bare minimum, but it works, and wow, Ruby on Rails really is as cool as I thought it was. :) Did I really just get it up as fast as that? ...
On Saturday I spent the whole morning reading through Ruby on Rails API and a number of other resources which have made quite a difference in my understanding. The API was the biggest thing, though. So much of what I had questioned before now makes sense. The ...
I love it when I get into the coding groove and things just magically happen. This afternoon I spun together the new search interface I've been procrastinating on at work, and everything just came into place beautifully. And the interface design and graphic design even ended up being ...
I'm finally starting to understand Rails! :)
Now that school's out I don't have any homework breathing down my neck, so this morning I got up early and decided to write a Rails app that takes a GEDCOM file (using an existing GEDCOM-to-XML parser) and imports it into a Beyond ...
Today I came across Functional Programming for the Rest of Us, via Digg. Great article providing a nice overview of functional programming, including higher order functions, currying, lazy evaluation, continuations, pattern matching, and closures. And I've got to say that I'm finding functional programming pretty darn ...
I started reading Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, the classic MIT computer science textbook. It's good! And they use Scheme, which is very cool (although it's certainly unlike most other programming languages). I started learning Lisp a long ...
