Tag Archives: Ruby

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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What’s your moniker

Posted on October 8, 2009 by dj2

We were playing with some ideas over at PostRank and realized we needed a way to give out some unique codes. We didn’t want some random string of letters and numbers as that isn’t very memorable. We wanted real words. … Continue reading →

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EventMachine Screencast — EM-HTTP-Request

Posted on July 15, 2009 by dj2

I decided to try my hand at creating a screencast the other day. I took a look at the EventMachine EM-HTTP-Request library and created a simple shell program to do single and multi requests. Take a look and let me … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics, OAuth and Ruby. Oh, my.

Posted on July 7, 2009 by dj2

I recently had the opportunity to take a peek at accessing Google Analytics data using their OAuth endpoint. We did this in Ruby using the Ruby OAuth gem. There were a few snags along the way so I figured I’d … Continue reading →

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EventMachine Introductions

Posted on February 27, 2009 by dj2

As you may know, we use EventMachine a lot at work. I’ve had a bit more time to get familiar with EventMachine then some of the other guys here and was asked to do a presentation to get everyone on … Continue reading →

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