siebertm

Day job: 
Rails / Javascript developer at samedi in Berlin

What is your language of choice: 
Whatever fits the job. Mostly Ruby, Javascript and Coffeescript

Open Source contributions:
Various small libs and tools others could find useful and a few smallish things in Rails

How do you use GitHub:

siebertm

# mongo_template.rb
# fork of Ben Scofield's Rails MongoMapper Template (http://gist.github.com/181842)
#
# To use:
#  rails project_name -m http://gist.github.com/gists/219223.txt

# remove unneeded defaults
run "rm public/index.html"
run "rm public/images/rails.png"
run "rm public/javascripts/controls.js"

siebertm

var DateHelper = {
  // Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
  // Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
  time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
    var date = new Date; 
    date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
    return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
  },
  
  time_ago_in_words: function(from) {