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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

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Xero API + Ruby Revisited

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Oh my, thanks very much to Tim Haines for pointing out HTTParty, this little gem makes writing an API for the Xero code really, really easy:
here’s all the methods for getting info out of Xero:
require ‘HTTParty’
require ‘pp’
class Xero
include HTTParty
format :XML
def initialize(url,api_key)
Xero.base_uri(url)
Xero.default_params({:apiKey=>api_key})
[...]

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Connecting to the Xero API: Part 1 [Ruby, GET, Contacts]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Hey hey hey, so I finally get an excuse to post some ruby code, yay!
As part of my foray into the Xero API I wanted to get a feel for how easy it would be to connect from non .net languages and as my Ruby was getting a bit rusty I thought I’d pull out [...]