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import Color exposing (..)
import Graphics.Collage exposing (..)
import Graphics.Element exposing (..)

hexagon : Color -> Form
hexagon clr = outlined (solid clr) (ngon 6 150)

hex_on_a_point : Float -> Color -> Form
hex_on_a_point deg clr = rotate (degrees deg) (hexagon clr)

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#takes palm docs of the buddhists texts dhammapada and the vacana and
#generates a daily reading

#get the Palm docsbooks buddhavacana.pdb and dhammapada.pdb here
#http://www.buddhavacana.net/index.php?d=/download/&f=books

# need the palm gem and chronic
require 'rubygems'
require 'palm'
require 'chronic'

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require 'feedzirra'

# fetching a single feed
feed = Feedzirra::Feed.fetch_and_parse("http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing")

# feed and entries accessors
feed.title          # => "Paul Dix Explains Nothing"
feed.url            # => "http://www.pauldix.net"
feed.feed_url       # => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing"
feed.etag           # => "GunxqnEP4NeYhrqq9TyVKTuDnh0"

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(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I’m Chris Wanstrath, and I’m one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven’t heard of it, has been described as “Facebook for developers.” Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we’re the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we’re small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I’ve always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing – which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

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# http://www.jamesbritt.com/2007/12/18/sending-mail-through-gmail-with-ruby-s-net-smtp
# http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zorio/20060416

require "openssl"
require "net/smtp"

Net::SMTP.class_eval do
  private
  def do_start(helodomain, user, secret, authtype)
    raise IOError, 'SMTP session already started' if @started

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# http://www.jamesbritt.com/2007/12/18/sending-mail-through-gmail-with-ruby-s-net-smtp
# http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zorio/20060416

require "openssl"
require "net/smtp"

Net::SMTP.class_eval do
  private
  def do_start(helodomain, user, secret, authtype)
    raise IOError, 'SMTP session already started' if @started

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*~
*.tab.rb
coverage

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# Factory girl, relaxed.
#
#   Factory.define :user do |f|
#     f.login 'johndoe%d'                          # Sequence.
#     f.email '%{login}@example.com'               # Interpolate.
#     f.password f.password_confirmation('foobar') # Chain.
#   end
#
#   Factory.define :post do |f|
#     f.user { Factory :user }                     # Blocks, if you must.

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require 'rss/2.0'
require 'open-uri'

module ApplicationHelper
  class EmptyURL < RuntimeError
  end

  def rss_content(name)
    content_object = StaticContent.find_by_name(name)
    if content_object.nil? || (Time.now - content_object.updated_at) > 4.hours

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# Newbie Programmer
def factorial(x)
  if x == 0
    return 1
  else
    return x * factorial(x - 1)
  end
end
puts factorial(6)
puts factorial(0)