Kyle Slattery

For the new site, I’m going to be using Markdown to handle the formatting of all of my content. I created a simple helper to make things easy:

def markdown(str) RDiscount.new(str).to_html end

(Note: I’m using the RDiscount library instead of BlueCloth, for reasons discussed here)

However, what if I wanted to add a “Read more” link at [...]

After my friend Paul asked me to text him updates from a Euro 2008 game while he was at work, I came up with the idea to set up a twitter bot that posted updates from Soccernet’s gamecasts. After a couple hours of work, using Hpricot and the Twitter gem, I was able to [...]