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Nichols’ Mud (2013) really is a film driven by its namesake (played by McConaughey). Even though his storyline is just one of many as seen by the film’s young protagonist Ellis (played by Sheridan), this meandering tale of southern Arkansas life delivers us a narrative that parallels Mud’s own delivery...
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The prevailing theme of Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a comedic (though certainly dark) outlook on the ‘strange love’ world leaders have with the game of nuclear warfare. This is built up in the film in every way from subtle visual innuendos to the obvious like names of the characters like...
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In the film High Fidelity (2000) director Stephen Freer takes on the challenging task of adapting a novel that is effectively a collection of inner-monologues and setting them into the visual reality of film. Thematically it covers a lot of ground as it progresses, but one theme that seems to underlie...
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What if you could order drink with your coaster? This blog post explains how we made one using an Arduino and Node.js.
So the semester has come to a close and I’ve made the first ‘official’ release of rtasklib. Install the gem from RubyGems.org (gem install rtasklib) or install the RPM on your Fedora system if you prefer. I reached out to the TaskWarrior devs and they also are adding rtasklib to the list of available...
In the Ruby community the most common way to distribute software is in a packaged format cutely named gems (similar to the Python concept of Eggs). This manages dependencies and meta data much like the other packaging platforms, but with Ruby syntax in a file called ‘#{you_gems_name}.gemspec’. This...
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In the Ruby world the most common way to generate documentation is with Yardocs. It basically generates documentation by scraping the code comments and provides a structured API for writing comments that it can interpret. For example to annotate that a parameter of a certain method is a duck type...
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