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Stripe CTF 3.0

January 30, 2014 Carl Leave a comment

Sadly, level 3 would not run for me, even with Stripe’s patch, so I could not continue with the competition.…

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Posted in: Article, Python, ruby, Tutorial Filed under: cryptocoin, node, proxy, python, ruby, scala, stripe

A Fractal Height Map Generator in Ruby

May 28, 2013 Carl Leave a comment

[I’m migrating my old articles to the blog in order to switch to it entirely] Date: 25th March 2010 Introduction…

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Posted in: Article, ruby, Tutorial Filed under: diamond, height map, ruby, square, tutorial

Fountain code – solution

March 30, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The solution to the Fountain code challenge is up on my Github page at https://github.com/carl-ellis/Fountain . Thank to all who…

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Posted in: CSLU, ruby Filed under: fountain, git, ruby, solution

Ruby gem – json_serialisable

February 7, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

I was working on a ruby project and stumbed upon my first valid application of metaprogramming. I was creating json…

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Posted in: ruby, Tech Filed under: gems, json, metaprogramming, ruby

Programming languages course

December 5, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

So I ran a talk on learning programming languages last week. It was the second time I had done that…

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Posted in: CSLU, ruby Filed under: cslu, presentation, ruby, talk, tryruby

Rain – Agent-based water

August 15, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

Well I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, and on Sunday with a freshly installed (and therefore…

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Posted in: ruby, Tech Filed under: agent, gosu, prototype, ruby, texplay

Rails 3 and lighttpd

May 6, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

This was performed on Archlinux with lighttpd 1.4.28 and rails 3.0.3 Prerequisites Required packages: lighttpd, fcgi, ruby, and their dependencies……

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Posted in: Archlinux, Rails, ruby, Tutorial Filed under: archlinux, lighttpd, rails, ruby, tutorial

Battery Monitor – rbatmon

July 15, 2010 Carl Leave a comment

I use a rather spartan windowing manager called awesome in all of my machines. This has been a fine setup…

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Posted in: Archlinux, ruby, Tech Filed under: archlinux, AUR, git, rbatmon, ruby, site

Ruby and Watir: Sending keyboard events to an element

January 5, 2009 Carl Leave a comment

Ok, so you need to send certain keyboard events to an element to properly test a webpage, but stuck how…

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Posted in: ruby, Tutorial Filed under: keyboard events, ruby, tutorial, Watir

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