http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2 Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I have written like a million versions of these in different languages, then I found out that Ruby has an in built CSV parser, so I said cool. I read through the Pickaxe, got the info, plugged it in and boom, no worky, I hate it when things no ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=9 Hey All Been awhile, I know. While working on one of my projects, it came up that we would need to import thousands of ebay items into the shop, and be able to export them using the ebay file exchange, which dumps out a .csv file. It seems .csv parsers are ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=8 Well, I got tired of linux mp3 players and their inability to manage mp3s, so I broke down and started doing what I have been planning for along time, creating a mp3 playlist creator to run on my local server. I may release it as a script, as so far, it's pretty useful, ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=7 I have seen some really great autocompleter tutorials around, but they all require constant database access, which is no good for me. I have a table with customer's info in it, there will never be more than a 100 or so, and I don't add new ones that often. I have a ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=6 A nice screenshot from my current project, as always, I am cursed with creating intranet like apps, which aren't publicly accessible. This one is from a project integrating a Rails database management system with eBay using their trading API. The whole thing is built from scratch in Rails. So far it ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=5 I am no rails expert, in fact, I had a bit of a problem with helpers, had to look into it and eventually, ask some questions and get answer on the Rails group before I could fix the issue, I thought I would give back to the community on what ... http://www.jason-knight-martin.com/v2/?p=3