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How I Used Hpricot and Mechanize in GeeQE

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While building GeeQE I wanted to enhance the CC dump of Stack Overflow’s data. The main reason I wanted to do this was to capture Gravatar hashes and user ba...

Fast XML parsing with Ruby

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One of the first things I needed to do while building the GeeQE iPhone application was process the CC data dump from Stack Overflow. The dump contains XML fi...

RFID Reader USB Prototyping Kit

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I recently won a programming contest that netted me a gift card for ThinkGeek and not knowing what else to do I strolled the site looking for something inter...

iPhone Windowed HTTP Live Streaming Server

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After some more work I have enhanced the HTTP segmenter and uploading script from my iPhone streaming using AWS S3 and Cloudfront post. I added a number of f...

10 Tips for BlackBerry Development

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Over time I’ve gathered up some nice tips I think would help get someone started developing applications for the BlackBerry so I decided to pull some of the ...