A simple algorithm to convert decimal numbers to binary; pointless since most languages have an inbuilt function but was used for learning about algorithm design.

The decrypter for the simple encrypter I posted earlier - Takes the encrypted text from a text file - "encrypt.txt" which the encrypter automatically writes to.

A quick implementation of an encrypter which can't be cracked by frequency analysis.

I'm in the process of writing test fixtures for our rails site. A lot of my tests require authentication, so I've had to port our permissions system into a fixture. Rather than type out all of the information for the fixture, I decided to create a nested loop that will take care of this for me.

There's probably a rake task for this, but I wasn't able to find it, so I came up with my own solution. You'll have to do a little cleanup when it's done, however some slight mods to this loop could even eliminate that.

This module is a Python Library to support all IP2Location™ database products. It has been optimized for speed and memory utilization. Developers can use the API to qeury all IP2Location™ binary databases for applications written in Python.

This snippet illustrates using Genetic Algorithm for the hardware optimization.

Genetic Algorithm implementation.

See also "Weighted random selection" for RandomItemSelector class source.

Weighted random selection from the list.

Don't forget to call itemsChanged after updating list content.

This snippet illustrates following:

1. Using http request to get the data
2. Parsing RSS feeds
3. Sending email

This code illustrates using ruby REXML package. It converts J2EE web application deployment descriptor web.xml into Freemind mindmap document.

This class illustrates mixed GUI/command line parameters passing. Any parameter may be specified in the command line. All unspecified parameters will be read using GUI dialog box.

This class intended to collect TODO comments from java/c++/etc source files.

Example:

protected readFileData (String path) throws IOException {
// TODO: add try...catch block for IOException
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(path);
...
}


See also DirectoryScanner class.

Customizable recursive directory scanner.

When doing a lot of testing in script/console, you often have to reload to pickup changes in DB schema, models and libs. The process of quitting the console and restarting it can become incredibly tedious amidst bugtracking.

note: I don't believe this reloads items in the libs dir

From time to time you may have reasons to override the default find method that ActiveRecord provides. In this example, we'll store a side-copy of the record attributes so that we have some basis for discovering changes to the data.

note: this will not override dynamic finders such as find_by_id

Well, ruby is actually so flexible that there is no real need to implement the goode olde signals & slots metaphor. But it serves nicely as demonstration of ruby properties, so here we go.

By default, migrations will run on the development environment. Here's how you would specify another environment.

find external IP and external hostname with vbscript

Using ASP or Active Server Pages it is actually quite easy to retrieve a users IP Address

Directory Utility for Ruby