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Re: Tammy - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:31:29 -0000

Among other things, I do Apache Spark training for Databricks. One of the data sets we've used in past classes is that exact data set. So, yes, I happen to have it lying around.

Re: A Simple Octopress Image Popup Plugin - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:22:22 -0000

I'm not sure. I suspect a version mismatch in one of the dependencies, but I'd have to debug it to be sure. Not sure when I can get to that...

Re: Brizzled: Running a Ruby block as another user

Brian Clapper — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:11:59 -0000

Not really. If the Ruby process is running as superuser (on a Unix-like system), you can switch to a different user, but that's process-wide. The only way to do this for just a block of code is to spawn a subprocess.

Re: Brizzled: Talking to Fourth Graders about Programming

Brian Clapper — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:33:42 -0000

Approve.

Re: Brizzled: Some Jekyll Hacks

Brian Clapper — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:04:49 -0000

Approve.

Re: Brizzled: Writing, Markdown and Pandoc

Brian Clapper — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:24:22 -0000

Approve.

Re: Simple Address Standardization

Brian Clapper — Sat, 24 May 2014 12:17:14 -0000

I don't. I've never had to scrub non-US addresses. However, AddressDoctor offers an "international" solution. It's not likely to be free, however.

http://www.addressdoctor.co...

Won't the Google Maps API work for Chilean addresses?

Re: Brizzled: Writing Blogging Software for Google App Engine

Brian Clapper — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:15:33 -0000

Well, this article is more than five years old now. Perhaps I should put a disclaimer at the top. I haven't deployed anything within Google AppEngine for quite some time...

Re: Brizzled: Making XML-RPC calls from a Google App Engine application

Brian Clapper — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:03:40 -0000

Thanks. It's nice to get feedback, especially on a 5-year-old article. ;-)

Re: A Sublime Text 2 Plugin to Set the Syntax from the File Name

Brian Clapper — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:33:28 -0000

Approve.

Re: A Sublime Text 2 Plugin to Set the Syntax from the File Name

Brian Clapper — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:31:57 -0000

I use the Octopress blogging framework, which is based on Jekyll. The code snippets in this article are formatted using facilities provided by that framework.

Re: Brizzled: Why I dislike Maven

Brian Clapper — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:03:28 -0000

Try 20 minutes.

Re: Brizzled: SBT and Your Own Maven Repository

Brian Clapper — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:52:58 -0000

No argument. I have a decent amount of experience with SBT (including writing plugins). I still find it to be counterintuitive, in many ways. Lately, I've been experimenting with using Gradle, instead, now that Gradle supports Zinc (and, thus, incremental compilation for Scala).

Re: Brizzled: SBT and Your Own Maven Repository

Brian Clapper — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:09:45 -0000

Potentially useful, though it's relatively trivial to configure SBT to do the same thing natively.

Re: Simple Address Standardization

Brian Clapper — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:08:09 -0000

AddressDoctor, a commercial service, (http://www.addressdoctor.co... claims to do it. Also, I suspect the Google Maps technique also works, to some degree, on non-US addresses—with the proviso that Google Maps doesn't standardize addresses so much as geolocate them.

There are probably other commercial services that do the same thing. Honestly, I haven't had to standardize European addresses, so I haven't done much research there.

Re: Why is Python more fun than Java?

Brian Clapper — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:30:23 -0000

Honestly, I prefer Scala to Python or Ruby these days. I've been doing some Rails work for a client lately, after doing a bunch of Scala+Play work. It's actually frustrating me. I'm accustomed to Scala's type safety. :-)

Re: Generating a Table of Contents in Octopress - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:50:19 -0000

At the time I implemented this solution, doing the TOC client-side was far easier than getting Octopress and Liquid to do what I wanted, and I had trouble getting kramdown to do what I wanted. However, I'd vastly prefer a server-side solution. I will, most likely, adopt your solution. Thanks for the comment.

Re: Generating a Table of Contents in Octopress - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:20:32 -0000

With one small change, you can easily put the table of contents anywhere you want.

The Javascript in the template (see Hooking the Javascript In) tells the generateTOC() function to append the table of contents to any element with class entry-content It's a simple matter to change that code to tell generateTOC() to append the table of contents to some other element.

Re: Brizzled: SBT and Your Own Maven Repository

Brian Clapper — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:50:27 -0000

The author does, but this is a blog...

Re: Brizzled: Writing, Markdown and Pandoc

Brian Clapper — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:58:09 -0000

Thanks. I corrected the link and added Pelican.

Re: A Simple Octopress Image Popup Plugin - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:35:12 -0000

See my article entitled Generating a Table of Contents in Octopress, located at http://brizzled.clapper.org...

Re: A Simple Octopress Image Popup Plugin - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:58:17 -0000

Did you mean to put this comment on the article about the table of contents?

Re: Generating a Table of Contents in Octopress - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:40:21 -0000

Good catch. Thanks. (Fixed.)

Re: Generating a Table of Contents in Octopress - Brizzled

Brian Clapper — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:17:54 -0000

Thanks. Glad it's still of use.

Re: Play Framework: LESS vs. Sass Recompilation Performance

Brian Clapper — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:29:03 -0000

No, the Play-Sass plugin requires that you install the Ruby "sass" gem, and it then assumes the existence of a sass command in the PATH. It invokes that command.

In standard Play usage, you don't do a ~compile or anything. From the Play console, which is really the SBT console, you type run, to run your web application in development mode. The recompilation checks are done when you reload the web page. (This is, of course, how Rails and Django behave, which is why Play does that.)