Jason Amster

Had some issues installing Nokogiri this morning on my slicehost account running Ubuntu (Hardy 8.04). Every time I tried installing the gem, I would get this :

sudo gem install nokogiri
Building...

Some scraping code I did for fun last night. I used Nokogiri and Ruby to scrape this site for the names and photos. Take a look at the code if you want to mess around with it.

I wrote this is…

I wrote this is code b/c I didn’t want to click through the 100 pages of the top 100 movie characters site.  I mean, it’s like 100 clicks.  I just wanted to see the name and the pictures.   If you feel like clicking through, check this out.  If you don’t want to execute any code, I posted it on my blog here: http://blog.jayamster.com/

via @saulcolt on twitter

Awesome… I always wanted this.

kylewritescode:

mattmcinerney:

Includes Lorem Ipsum in short paragraphs, long paragraphs, short list items, and long list items. I do find myself breaking up lipsum into lists quite often. And if you’re not sure what Lorem Ipsum is, it’s the most frequently used placeholder text by graphic designers.

This is my new lipsum.com.