Active Reload

Active Reload is a small company founded by Rick Olson and Justin Palmer. Rick is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, while Justin is a member of the Prototype Javascript Library core team. Together we build rocking software with a focus on awesomeness.

1. May29
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   twitter bot

   Read your tweets for messages prefixed with @foo and post to that user. http://pastie.caboo.se/65927

   # Read tyler-durden's tweets for any messages starting with '@project-mayhem'
   #
   #   $ ruby twitter_bot.rb tyler-durden project-mayhem my-password
   #
   # Stores the last modified and highest id in a yaml file in the pwd by the anme of 'twitter_bot.cache'
   # Should block against dupes and be easy against twitter's servers

2. May17
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   Displaying nice relative dates

   <%= relative_time(Time.now) %>
   # today
   <%= relative_time(1.day.ago) %>
   # yesterday
   <%= relative_time(1.day.from_now) %>
   # tomorrow
   <%= relative_time_span([Time.now, 5.days.from_now]) %>
   # May 17th - 22nd

   — relative_time_helpers rails plugin

3. May16
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   Discussing a Feature Removal

   Rick:  no more lightbox?
   Justin:  no, I banished it because it was useless the way it was being used.  
   Rick:  ha, it was cool man
   Justin:  yeah, Zune music sharing is cool too.
   Rick:  touche

4. May10

   Scrobbler: Last.fm for Ruby —Ruby Library for accessing the AudioScrobbler web service.

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