About 42 results
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-and-jenkins · 1 Mar 2013
I was trying to integrate my Cucumber and RSpec tests with Jenkins earlier this week and came across a bunch of character encoding errors. It took me a while to figure out the problem, essentially Jenkins loads a session without all your usual environment...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/mini-magic-apache-passenger · 23 Jan 2013
A note out there to anyone else having the same problem as me: If you're trying to use mini_magick in a ruby application being run via Passenger on Mac OS X Mountain Lion's Apache2, when you've installed imagemagick via Homebrew - _mouthful_ - then you ma...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/pottymouth · 24 Jun 2010
I had some time to kill on a lazy summer's day and I noticed that splendid chap Max, had posed a question to the lazy web: > Is there a tool for measuring profanity in code-bases? If not, can someone write it and call it "pottymouth"? Ta. So I did. If y...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/blinkers · 10 May 2010
!A screenshot of the Facebook homepage. Instead of the newsfeed there is text saying "You've got blinkers on. Now… get back to work JP! I built Blinkers, a little greasemonkey script/Firefox extension that will prevent you from seeing your own Facebook ...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/thimblr · 12 Apr 2010
{{< vimeo 10866898 >}} I've released Thimblr — a tool to speed up your Tumblr theme development. Its a Ruby gem, so it's very simple to install, with gem install Thimblr, once that's done you just need to run thimblr, as a binary is installed for you wi...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/project-prime-complete · 11 Apr 2010
!The visual element of Project Prime: a slightly chaotic stained-glass window of different coloured polygons of colour in a rectangular web browser page. I finally got round to completing project prime, it's a collaborative artwork based on four of my poe...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/project-prime · 4 Feb 2010
!A web-based questionaire describing this project/poem, asking people their age, and what they think of the poetry. In its final days now, Project Prime[^1] is my attempt at combining art, poetry and maths in a funky little collaborative weave. Hopefully...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/its-been-a-while · 15 Nov 2009
Well, its been a few months since I posted last - the genuine joy of interesting/difficult work in my final year as a Physics undergrad - but there's a fair amount I should probably put up here for posterity: - I've become very interested in Playdar - an ...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/unexpectedly-popular-photo · 1 Sep 2009
{{< figure src="./unda-da-sea.jpg" alt="A photo looking down on two young men with masks on swimming under cristal clear seawater, facing upwards" caption="'Unda Da Sea' via Flickr" >}} I find it very amusing that despite 3 years with an SLR and progressi...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/geo-tumblr · 31 Aug 2009
Well, I'm back from Japan and while I was there I kept an online journal (Tumblr, you rock) to let everyone at home know what was going on. To make things even cooler I vowed to keep the posts tagged with where I was while I was writing them, of course tum...