me: had a problem building the gem from source
me: well, i’ll wait til a rainy day
me: shit its raining
jbarnette: technogeist: be a man, get it to build ;)

Installing Nokogiri turned out to be a pain. I also needed racc and frex to build it properly.

$ sudo gem install nokogiri
# failed with this: "checking for racc... no"
$ svn co http://i.loveruby.net/svn/public/racc/trunk racc
$ cd racc
$ sudo ruby setup.rb config
$ sudo ruby setup.rb setup
$ sudo ruby setup.rb install
$ ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/racc /usr/bin/racc
$ cd ..
$ git clone git://github.com/tenderlove/frex.git
$ cd frex
$ gem build frex.gemspec
$ sudo gem install frex-1.0.1.gem
$ sudo gem install nokogiri

I happened to be reading about Non-test code is trivial, when I came across this comment:

For example, are the developers for large software programs writing tests? What about in, say, game development, are those developers writing tests?—anonymous

Do game developers TATFT?

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Several months ago, I was listening to one of the Gitsplosion! podcasts. PJ was talking about ant juice, and Chris suggested starting a seinfeld calendar to mark your progress on wearing your Github t-shirts every day for a month. I’d been looking for a cool microapp to build for awhile, and thought I could use this calendar idea. However, I have no idea how to confirm if someone is actually wearing a Github shirt, so I decided to scan public Github feeds.

After I let my microapp sit around unfinished for several months, Kyle whipped up a basic layout, and I launched the Calendar About Nothing.

I also decided to use various frameworks that are unfamiliar to me: Sinatra, Datamapper, and HAML. The code itself isn’t anything special. It’s a big hack that’ll hopefully get refactored as time goes on, and more sources get added. Let me know if you have any ideas of other sources I can check (Gitorious and bitbucket spring to mind). Ideally, you’d be able to take the mythical calendar source API and implement your own private hooks that read private repositories on your own hosted calendars.