Ruby – how to turn integers into base36 for urls
Here’s a nice trick for turning long integers into much shorter “tinyurl” style strings. 12345.to_s(36) => “9ix” “9ix”.to_i(36) => 12345…
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Expand Raspberry Pi Root Partition with MacBook Pro
By default the root partition on the Raspberry Pi Debian install is 1.6GB. Â I’m lazy and I don’t want to…
Simple Ruby script for health check of remote web server
I’ve set up my Raspberry Pi in a DMZ at my house. I don’t want to pay for Pingdom or…
First install of the Raspberry Pi
I finally got my Raspberry Pi, the highly sought after $35 computer. Â This live-blog will document my installation process on…