Category Archives: Programming

Stage left: Enter Goliath

Posted on March 8, 2011 by dj2

Over at PostRank Labs we’ve released the current version of our API server framework to the wild. Allow me to introduce Goliath. Goliath is built on the back of the work at PostRank, Thin, Sinatra, http-parser.rb and various other projects. … Continue reading →

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Ramblings on programming Cocoa with Ruby

Posted on June 16, 2010 by dj2

This post started with a point. It didn’t end with one. So, I’m going to start it again and just get to the point. What makes a good Ruby Cocoa development environment. I’ll get into my rambling thoughts below, but … Continue reading →

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Introducing QueryStringParser

Posted on June 16, 2010 by dj2

Over at PostRank we serve a lot of data through our API servers. All of those servers parse query strings. Along with, obviously, the query string, we also encode the post data in query string format. This means we’re doing … Continue reading →

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Download and XML parsing with HotCocoa

Posted on February 8, 2010 by dj2

I’ve been working on Rife, a Google Reader client, over the last few days and have been digging my way through some more HotCocoa mappings. I figured the best way to remember some of this stuff is to write it … Continue reading →

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Poking Objective-C with a Testing Stick

Posted on October 26, 2009 by dj2

I’ve wandered back into Objective-C coding land recently. After spending so much time doing Ruby work I’ve gotten used to writing unit tests and using mock objects. To that end, I spent a bit of time figuring out OCUnit (built … Continue reading →

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