Archive for 2008/7
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Ruby's HTTP Client Sucks
-- July 6, 2008, 3:26 p.m.
I implemented what's up in ruby since it seemed to have some of the best XMPP support I know of. I also got to learn the datamapper API, which is alright. Ruby's HTTP client, however, really sucks. I have to imagine someone else has known how much it sucks, but I haven't found much talking about it, or any solutions ...
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What's Up? — An XMPP-based Web Monitor
-- July 6, 2008, 2:58 p.m.
I finally got around to building a useful web monitor or myself. I bring up little web services all over the place and generally do a bad job of ensuring they start correctly and/or continue to run correctly. I don't want to get paged when these things are broken, or have my email box flooded or anything, so XMPP seemed ...