Flickr and Rails
Doing neat things with flickr and rails is easier than running rails—believe it or not. The following are screenshots from Putting Flickr on Rails Screencast.
- create layout/application.rhtml file
- create controller: type ruby script/generate controller flickr at the command line in the directory your rails app is installed in
- type gem install flickr at the command line in the directory your rails app is installed in
- change flickr controller, stylesheet and write index.rhtml file
Flickr Controller
Stylesheet
_photo.rhtml
index.rhtml
Access index.rhtml file at http://localhost:3000/flickr
You are finished!!!!!!
Blythe on YouTube
- KCP Blythe Exhibit
- Blythe at Hong Kong Disneyland
- Slide show of various customized dolls from Cherry Soda (no longer available)
- 70’s Blythe commercial
- Blythe in Crime
- Japanese Commercial with Blythe
- Cute Petite Blythe
- Blythe on the News in Spanish
- Blythe Shop on Japanese (?) TV
- Blythe gets ready for the day
- One cute petite Blythe baby
- Seattle Blythe Meet: short, but some very neat dolls
- Behind Blythe Exhibiton @ KCP
- Toronoto Blythe Meet
- And then there is ILoveBlythes and her videos.
Music Monday: Uber short review of Danielson's Ships
In fact, the following doesn’t even count as a review, but if you have been living in a cave or without internet access, you might want to look into Danielson.
My Danielson promo/pseudo-review here.
T-shirt for Blythe
How to make a cool t-shirt for your Blythe baby
The following pattern comes from Puchimadam:
So, total props to Melissa for helping out the rest of us budding Bltyhe lovers. I have previously made the sun dress from her site, and the pattern and instructions are very straight forward, just as the t-shirt pattern was. Just in case you want to read a bit more about what to do in creating the Blythe t-shirt before you get started, here are the steps I took:
Step1: Buy fabric and wash. I typically have some scraps from other sewing projects laying around that I can use. Get the ironing board out, and heat up the iron.
Step 2: Print and cut pattern out for regular printer paper.
Step 3: Place pattern on fabric. Align pattern on portion of fabric you want to display. On the fabric I just used, there was no need to center the fabric over some design in the pattern because the pattern was small. See picture below.
Step 4: Pin paper pattern to fabric.
Step 5: Cut pattern out of fabric, and take pins out. You should have something that looks like the piece on the left-hand side of this picture:
Step 7: Hem the neckline. Fold the neckline under and sew.
Step 8: Fold the two “wings” of the fabric over so that the raw edges meet for form a t-shirt looking thing.
Step 9: Sew the raw edges together.
Step 10: Turn the shirt inside out, and place on Blythe doll. Take note of how much you should hem the back of the t-shirt for the shirt to close properly (too much and you won’t be able to close the shirt; too little and you will have a bunch of fabric left over).
Step 11: Hem the back. Sew on velcro or snap buttons.
All done!
Del.icio.us Fridays 1
Del.icio.us Bookmarks for the Week of August 5th, 2006
Pi
This is a pneumonic device for remembering the digits in Pi. The number of letters in each word in the poem represents a digit in Pi. Memorize the poem, and memorize Pi. Or just know that you could memorize Pi if you wanted to.
3 – Now
1 – I
4 – defy
1 – a
5 – tenet
9 – gallantly
Now I defy a tenet gallantly Of circle canon law: these integers Importing circles’ quotients are, we see, Unwieldy long series of cockle burs Put all together, get no clarity; Mnemonics shan’t describeth so reformed Creating, with a grammercy plainly, A sonnet liberated yet conformed. Strangely, the queer’st rules I manipulate Being followéd, do facilitate Whimsical musings from geometric bard. This poesy, unabashed as it’s distressed, Evolvéd coherent – a simple test, Discov’ring poetry no numerals jarred.
Celebrate Pi Day on (when else) March 13th.
And then there is this book: Pi to Five Million Places... which I don’t know whether to take as a reference, humor or conversation piece. Any ideas?
Bloggin' for the Masses
I’m not proficient at app writing; so, I don’t have “Wow, rails is SO easy/smart/whatever stories”. In trying to finish my Master’s thesis, I have pretty much dropped all work on the application. Thus, there isn’t anything to show right now. Buckled Closet helps users visualize the clothes in their closets, design new outfits, plan and keep track of what they wear, as well as, share their outfits with others. Not pretty yet, but it will get there. Email me at jownensbysandifer [at] gmail [dot] com if you are interested in web development and fashion; I’m looking for a partner.
About me: I enjoy drinking mass quantities of Diet Cola and organizing objects in my house. My other blogging enterprises include: Readings in Analytic Philosophy, raiment and C-puter.
Ubuntu installed
My HP desktop was fried and so I replaced it with a linux box from walmart.com. It came with Linspire installed, but I immediately put Ubuntu on it… just to see what all of the hype was about.
My Ubuntu Newbie LinksTypo & Tortoise: How to install typo using Tortoise SVN
Since my last Windows machine died recently (RIP my old friend), I don’t/can’t use Tortoise anymore. But for anyone running windows wanting an easy way to use Subversion, try Tortoise.
Tortoise SVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don’t need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.
Here’s how to use Tortoise:
Navigate to the folder you want to copy svn project into (c:/rails/)
Right click in the folder (c:/rails/)
Select SVN checkout
Type in svn address (svn://typosphere.org/typo/trunk) and folder to unpack svn folder into (c:/rails)
Watch tortoise checkout typo…. Oooooooooh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Get to work deving your typo blog on you local machine!