Ooochie: A Ruby Developer’s Journal

Well, my friends, I have officially graduated to a new level of nerdiness (or so I've been told).... I wrote a facebook application! It may not be pretty, complex, or anywhere near perfect-- but I wrote it all myself, and I already have 164 users since submitting it last night!

It's a simple app that, when given the user's myspace url, steals the photo off the myspace page and places it in the user's facebook profile. The picture serves as a link to the user's myspace page.

So, nerd-factor aside, I think it's pretty darn cool. If you have a facebook and a myspace account, go check out my fantastic application. You can find it at http://apps.facebook.com/myspace_fb.

Maybe if I feel ambitious I will post about developing a facebook app, but for now I will just link you to those who have already done so. Liverail has a nice tutorial that helped me out a bunch, and the follow-up is here.

Happy Facebooking!

Courtesy of Jade. :)

As Matt Gist so kindly reminded me yesterday, it's time for a new post. And since I have no interesting work-related stuff to write about at the moment, I'm going to give a little rant on life in general. Disclaimer: The following are things that are currently frustrating me and are extremely random. They really have nothing to do with anything.

Rant #1: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Movie was not cool.
I am a huge Harry Potter fan(I don't care if you think it's nerdy!), and I know that a movie will never live up to the fantasticness (yes, I just made up a new word) of the books. That said: what were they thinking? I got all excited for the movie and was very disappointed in the final product. It was jumpy, inaccurate, inconsistent with the previous movies, and was probably confusing for anyone who hadn't read the book. It had such potential. What a let-down.

Rant #2: Migraine Headaches are stupid.
I have been a migraine sufferer since I was 18 months old, so it goes without saying that I am sick of them by now. When I was a kid, they blamed the headaches on a problem with my jaw called TMJ. After lots of dental work, I seemed to grow out of the headaches and went several years without a single migraine. But two years ago, I started to get them again sporadically and now they occur all too often. Migraines have started to interfere with my life again, and I'm not going down without a fight.

Rant #3: Arizona is a very hot state.
Actually, this is less of a rant the the previous two. It's true, Arizona is flippin' hot, but I think I'm adjusting quite well. Air conditioning is amazing, and I really appreciate the 12% humidity as opposed to 81% back home in CT. That said, I wouldn't mind if we turned down the heat a little... 95 sounds ok with me.

Like I said, this has nothing to do with anything, so feel free to ignore it completely. Actually, I'm surprised you're still reading. Cheers. :)