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Xbox Live Marketplace Video Store Comes to Canada

Corban Brook — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:24:00 -0500

December 11th is the day Video Marketplace will launch in canada.

Currently only movies will be available but TV shows will soon follow.

The pricing is comparable to what you see in Canada for other video on demand services. For Library titles, movies will be 310 Microsoft Points (Standard Definition) and 460 Points (High Definition), and for Current titles, they’ll be 460 Points (SD) and 610 Points (HD).

So to break that down. $1 CAD = 70 points.

Old title SD: $4.50 Old title HD: $6.60

New title SD: $6.60 New title HD: $8.70

Note: numbers rounded.

Mod Your Motorola SLVR L6 Using OS X

Jen — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:34:00 -0500

This page is a collection of various modifications for the Motorola SLVR L6.

Breaking into Orkut with Mechanize

Corban Brook — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:25:00 -0500

Alternate title: Using Mechanize to Scrape Orkut for Love Letters from Lonely Brazilian Beauties and Translating their Wantings to English

Shout outs to Natai for the request.

In this tutorial we will use mechanize to login to Orkut, pull our scrap messages, we will assume the message is written in Portuguese and translate the message to English with Google Translate.

FUN!

Scraping Gmail with Mechanize and Hpricot

Corban Brook — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:36:00 -0500

This quick tutorial will show you how to use mechanize and hpricot to login to gmail and return a list of Unread emails.

Send me your favorite vi Commands and Stories

Corban Brook — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:23:00 -0500

Vi has been around for over 30 years now and in celebration of that we are compiling a list of obscure vi/vim commands and anecdotes.

Send your submission to viroundup@gmail.com or comment in this article. Include a useful vi/vim command and or anecdote about how vi saved the day. After two weeks I will be compiling a large article of your submissions so be sure to include your name and or homepage so I may cite you.

Getting Data from MySQL into Excel

Corban Brook — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:00:00 -0500

The other title of this article could be Outputting data from MySQL into a Comma Separated Value file (.csv)

Short and sweet, this article is more for me to store this SQL syntax in an easily recoverable place as I seem to forget how to use it every time I need to output something into CSV format from MySQL.

Multiple Concurrent Database Connections with ActiveRecord

Corban Brook — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:52:00 -0500

ActiveRecord is a great tool to use for database maintenance as I explored in my previous article, Using ActiveRecord for Simple Maintenance Scripting, but what if you need to do tasks that require you to be connected to multiple databases at once.

Perhaps you want to compare records in one database and copy them to another, well heres how you do it.

250 RadRails Templates

Corban Brook — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:41:00 -0500

Dr. Nic has converted all of the Textmate snippets to RadRails templates. All 250 of them.

RADRails will include these templates in the new version 0.7.2 scheduled to push next week, but if you cant wait, download them now from Dr. Nics new site, www.radrailstemplates.com.

Installing Rails and Mongrel on a Shared Host

Corban Brook — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:27:00 -0500

In some situations you may find yourself needing to install mongrel or other ruby gems in a shared environment and the documentation out there for taking on such an enterprise is quite lacking.

Today I went through the trouble and figured out how.

Using RMagick with Flickr

Corban Brook — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:08:00 -0400

In my previous article, Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick, I showed how you can use RMagick to generate a lovely collage from a selection of random images. This tutorial will take it one step further and show you how to use RMagick with RFlickr to generate a collage from your own Flickr account or even a results from a flickr search.

4 random images found with the search term “Mazda MX-3” (my car)