I will post my pictures, videos, expierences, etc as I get around to doing the project. As of right now, I need to finish unpacking all my stuff; household as well as recording (Just moved to the valley of silicon).

Just to give an idea of what has inspired me check out these artists:
Squarepusher - http://www.myspace.com/akais5000
Daft Punk - http://www.myspace.com/daftpunk
The Society of Rockets - http://www.myspace.com/thesocietyofrockets
Girl Talk - http://www.myspace.com/girltalk

as well as the usual hardcore, metal, emo, etc influences…

You can find all the aforementioned music on my myspace profile playlist - http://www.myspace.com/deceptivedream

First, let’s talk about how you get a tinyurl. Tinyurl has a really simple api that you can call that will return a tiny url. It is rediculous how simple it is. You just call this url with a GET: http://tinyurl.comapi-create.php?url=http://example.com

The returned page will be a single line with the tinyurl equivalent. It is that simple. Now on to the rails part.

In your application.rb helper you would add this:

require ‘net/http’
require ‘uri’

def tinyfy(newurl)
   url = URI.parse(’http://tinyurl.com/’)
   res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
   http.get(’/api-create.php?url=’ + newurl)
   }
   if res.body.empty?
      #tinyurl is not responding properly… Return the original url
      return newurl
   else
      return res.body
   end
end

Now if you call the tinyfy method in your app, let’s say in your view, with the url you want to tinyurlify as the parameter the return will be the tinyurl. I take this one step further and have the tinyfy method make the url a link by adding the ‘a’ tags in the method like so:

require ‘net/http’
require ‘uri’

def tinyfy(newurl)
   url = URI.parse(’http://tinyurl.com/’)
   res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
   http.get(’/api-create.php?url=’ + newurl)
   }
   if res.body.empty?
      #tinyurl is not responding properly… Return the original url
      return ‘<a href=’ + newurl + ‘>’ + newurl + ‘</a>’
   else
      return ‘<a href=’ + res.body + ‘>’ + res.body + ‘</a>’
   end
end

That will return a nice linked tinyurl in your view. That is all there is to it.

You need to follow /var/logs/app.log, you need to edit /etc/app/app.conf, and you need to execute /usr/bin/app -debug to fix your problem.

First you run tail -f /var/logs/app.log and then hit ‘ctrl+z’ to suspend this task and return to the prompt. You should see something like:
[1]+ Stopped tail -f /var/logs/app.log

The number at the beginning is the job number. That is how you get back to the process.

Now you run vi /etc/app/app.conf and hit ‘ctrl+z’ This will be assigned job number 2:
[2]+ Stopped vi /etc/app/app.conf

Now you can use the ‘fg’ command to ‘foreground’ a job. So if you want to pull the log back up you do ‘fg 1′ and the log job will come back. Use ‘ctrl+z’ to go back to the command line and run ‘fg 2′ to pull up your app.conf. It’s that easy. If you ever forget what jobs are which you can run ‘jobs’ to display all running jobs:

[1]+ Stopped tail -f /var/logs/app.log
[2]+ Stopped vi /etc/app/app.conf

It’s that freaking easy. Enjoy…

Hey everyone, there is a new site on the interwebs today! Gripefest.us

GripeFest is an open forum for posting pretty much anything you want and your name is optional! It really is a Gripe Fest. It just launch about an hour ago and it already has a few gripes from the community. Pretty cool considering that it launched with only one gripe to begin with. So, go to http://gripefest.us and bitch about something, its fun

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So, now that I have a job and a cube, I need things for my cube to make it nerdy-awesome. I have been putting things on my “gift list” (link above ^ ) so that:

A) I don’t forget and have a reference to all the things that I have found, thought was cool, and wanted.

and

B) So that if any of my beloved readers/fans wants to get me something… there is a list

So check it out, you may find something that you want too

But hey, they got another user out of it!

Justin.tv is a live webcasting website that is totally free! Like YouTube for live footage. It is the most awesome up and coming application out right now. 

You can check me out two ways… First you can click on the “Live Feed” link above or if you want to chat while I am live you can go directly to my live feed on Justin.tv by clicking here.

Check them out here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/parabuzzle/sets/72157605120323408/