Archive for March, 2008

Geolocate visitors to your Rails App

Monday, March 24th, 2008

In modern web apps, knowing the location of your customer can be very important. A friend and I are developing a location-based service right now. I whipped up the following Ruby code that uses the hostip.info API to fetch a user's location based on his IP address. require 'net/http' def ...

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Crayon Physics Deluxe

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I just had the pleasure of reading this Slate article on a game that was unveiled at the Game Developers Conference called Crayon Physics Deluxe. A description by me wouldn't do it justice. Check out the video: I've realized over the years that while I do have artistic sensibilities ...

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