Some words are missing (????) and other can be wrong. Feel free to leave a comment if you want to correct something.

When somebody tries to explain something to you, it is very likely that his vocabulary will be different than yours. However it does NOT means that he doesn’t use the appropriate words.

Today I faced that problem when I talked with someone about a subject that I know about and it really pissed me off. He pretended that I did not use the right word, which was absolutely wrong… It was just DIFFERENT.

So if you want to be constructive, just say What do you mean about…? and everyone will be happy… Just a piece of advice

I would like to introduce you to my new gem called “Rubyctaculous”, which is, as the title say, a ruby client for Pictaculous.

Pictaculous is a service that can generate a color palette for a given image.

What the gem do is very simple, it takes an image path, send it to Pictaculous and returns you an array of colors.

As you can see, it’s pretty strait forward.

If you have any question, feel free to drop me a line on twitter @basgys.

Links:

Github page

Rubygems

Pictaculous

If like me you have an error when installing Little Big Planet on your PS Vita, you might be interested by this post.

In fact, this bug affect only european users who downloaded the game from the PSN and within a specific time range. It’s something like wednesday 19.09.2012 between 6pm and 10:30pm… Anyway, here is a conversation I had with Rabid Walker who is a “Online Support Co-ordinator for the EN PlayStation Community” as his Twitter profile say.

Robid Walker If you have encountered issues with #LBP for the #PSVita from the PS store, you can find the resolutions here http://bit.ly/OIGoxM #PSN

Basically the solution is to wait for a refund and re-buy a digital copy of Little Big Planet. However, nobody knows when they will proceed to a refund.

Me @RabidWalker Ok, so we can buy a physical copy and keep money for another game? #LBP

Robid Walker @basgys Yes you can, when the money is back in the wallet it can be spent on any item in the store.

So if you are in a hurry to play this brand new game, go buy a physical copy…

I have to admit that I am really disappointed by Sony, because I was one of the first buyers for this game and now I just have to wait for a refund with an invitation to re-download the game. Just as if nothing happened. Ok they posted a message with something like “we are very sorry that this happened”, but in fact they let us down and they don’t give a shit…

If you prefer to use online doc, you can disable ri and rdoc when you install gems. This will make installation faster.

echo 'gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc'  >> ~/.gemrc

Here is my new gem called emailvision4rails, it is built on top of emailvision which is an API wrapper made by myself too. This gem was made to simplify newsletter creation and publication for developers.

Here is an sneak peek of how it works :

Generation

Publication

As you can see it is very straightforward. All you have to do is to modify HTML and text views and then update newsletter methods if needed.

If you need further informations, visit the github page here

If you need fake images when you develop websites, just like lorem ipsum for texts, here is two services that might interest you:

• fakeimg.pl
• placehold.it

Here is an example of what you can do :

http://placehold.it/150x50

You can also customize text inside image and change colors.

Here is a dead simple snippet I made to transfer images from a database to Amazon S3. The field called blob_image is the image stored in the database and s3_image is… guess what? the image stored on S3. I found useful to share this snippet, because it took me some time to figure out how to handle this small problem.