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How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API?

How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API? RubyLearning is conducting many free, online courses on Google+. Some participants wanted an answer to their question “How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API?” This blog post explains the same. Read on. Pre-requisite Install Sinatra, Git, Heroku, Bundler Refer RubyLearning’s article on...

20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+

Google+ What’s Google+ ? Google+, pronounced “Google plus” is a new social network from Google. The service, which is initially available to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links, much as they do on Facebook. A list...

May 20, 2010: Fontastic

Book Status Starting to sound repetitive. Still working on the Cuke chapter, this time focusing on cleaning up the parts where I recommend ways to use Cucumber. Still hoping for a beta early next week. Other things This week in Yehuda, there’s a very long article about text encodings and what problems they have, and...

Double Shot #492

A bit sad to watch people get all excited over vaporware. We never learn, do we? Introducing the Google Chrome OS – Reality check: would the tech punderati be so excited if anyone else had announced a new Linux distribution? No? Next! Buzzbird 0.4 – Open source Twitter client that’s reached the point of being usable. Next Steps...

2009 Rails Google Summer of Code Projects

The Google Summer of Code program has announced this year’s funding winners, and Rails has four student slots. Here’s what our students will be working on this summer: Joshua Peek will be refactoring some of the Rails internals, wit...

Building API Wrapping Gems Could Not Get Much Easier

In which I show how easy it is now to create ruby gems that wrap APIs, using Google Weather as an example.

HTTParty goes foreign

Just a quick post to get share something I was tinkering with this evening.

I came across this post by Gerald Bauer, which shows you how to use the Google Translation API with Ruby via Net::HTTP. I thought I’d play with the service with HTTParty.

class GoogleApi
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'ajax.googleapis.com'

 ...

BetterFavicon for Google

Not loving Google’s new favicon too much?

Google (before)

Check out my quick and dirty hack… BetterFavicon for Firefox. (greasemonkey required)

Google

Install it here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40367

Enjoy!

Google Chrome: discuss

I’m sure that most of you heard the news that Google is releasing a new web browser named Chrome. Their comic for the announcement was very refreshing and entertaining read. Granted… nobody that I know has seen it (as of today)...

For me, I’m really interested in seeing what they’ve done to hopefully improve...