Simulator Ruby Gem

Intro I’ve been working on this off and on for awhile. Simulator is a Ruby gem which provides functionality for creating discrete time models, and running those models. You can find the Homepage for the Simulator gem on Github. Take the following two examples included with the gem. Ball Drop Let’s say we want to model a […]

iOS App: Bunny Matcher

Introduction I recently finished a game for iOS called Bunny Matcher. This will probably be my last iOS app for awhile, as I want to do more Android development. I’m also ramping up with my new job doing iOS development, so I get plenty of practice with Objective-C every day. Bunny Matcher has the same […]

Buzzy Bingo

I was chatting with a co-worker the other day about project management, and we mentioned the prevalence of buzzwords. Then, we mentioned Buzzword Bingo, and I decided that to implement a Bingo application as an iOS app. I looked up Buzzword Bingo in the app store and only saw two implementations. I figured I’d write […]

Code for America: Philly 2012

This past weekend I attended the Code for America event held at Azavea’s offices around 12th and Callowhill. Their office was spacious and well accommodated, but the wireless was slow during the day. I met a coworker, Hector, there and had some coffee and breakfast. We didn’t really get started until at least quarter of ten, […]

OSX Lion Rubygame Install

I tried setting up Rubygame on Snow Leopard this time last year. I had many difficulties setting up SDL. I had some time to kill so I tried to set it up again, this time on my new MacBook Air running Lion. This old blog post from 2005 helped me this time around: //inquirylabs.com/blog2005/?p=21 to […]

Sandwich Roulette

Over the weekend I had the idea to create an app which creates a random sandwich for you to get at Wawa. The result is the Sandwich Roulette! Here’s the source on Github.

Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 5

The Builder To keep the teams working as separately as possible with the least interference, we decided that the PAAL Builder, the tool used to build student schedules and lessons, would be completely HTML and Javascript. That means that there would be no server-side code, no ERB or HAML template files, and no Rails special […]

Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 4

Thinking about the problem domain, Trevor, Sebastian, and I decided to abstract away the complexity. The problem (as I understood it then) can be explained thusly: Students need a way to follow a list of scheduled tasks throughout the day, to assist them in performing daily activities. These tasks can be broken into more detailed […]

Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 3

As the MECA staff were describing the application, I didn’t have a clear sense of how beneficial our work would be. To illustrate how our application would help people, they showed us a video of a student going to a gym. In the first clip, the student has trouble following directions and signage about the […]

Mediawiki-Usage/Changes Storage and Visualizations

A coworker and I have been doing some work on visualizations of wiki updates. The server-side code, written in Ruby, stores changes from a media-wiki feed. I got a chance to use the Google Visualization API, which is really simple and useful for a wide variety of domains. He also turned me on to HAML, […]

Stikker

Some coworkers and I have been working on Stikker, a cli interface for the Stikked FOSS php pastebin. I haven’t used it for awhile, but we recently set it up at work to facilitate code sharing. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated recently and there are some things which are broken which I’ll need to address. […]

Ruby Hiccups

I decided to try out some Ruby stuff this weekend. I wanted to do a quick little game with the rubygame gem, but I got some weird error attempting to install it on my 64-bit Snow Leopard Intel Mac Powerbook. I abandoned the effort, since I hate to expend time in system administration and installation. […]

Jamie Ly

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