Paco Guzmán pacoguzman

Problem-Solving Games

My daughter and I love playing problem-solving/adventure games together. Here's a record of them.

My job, explained so my mom can understand it

"I am a freelance Ruby and Rails developer". When I talk with my geek friends, everyone understands what I do and they have a reasonable understanding of how I spend my day. But sometimes, less technical people ask me what I do for a living and then I tend to dumb down the answer: "I am a programmer, I usually build websites.". Oh -they say- my nephew also make websites, he even built me a blog in Blogger.

Err... yes, but that hardly has anything to do with what I do for a living.

There are many different kinds of websites, built with different technologies, and depending on the site and the technology used to build it, they are made by one kind of professional or another. The craft of building a website comprises many different disciplines, and professionals usually specialize in just one part of the process. Although I do many different things, my specialization is mainly programming dynamic websites using Ruby and Rails.

In this article I want to

	Code.load_file("computation.ex")
	Code.load_file("aggregator.ex")

	defmodule AsyncNoLink do
	def run do
	:random.seed(:os.timestamp)
	Task.Supervisor.start_link(name: :task_supervisor)

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	$ brew install postgresql # You'll need postgres to do this... you may also need to 'initdb' as well. Google it.

	$ brew install elixir
	$ mix local.hex # Answer y to any Qs
	$ createuser -d postgres # create the default 'postgres' user that Chris McCord seems to like -- I don't create mine w/a pw...

	# Use the latest Phoenix from here: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/installation -- currently this is 1.0.3
	# Answer y to any Qs
	$ mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/releases/download/v1.0.3/phoenix_new-1.0.3.ez

	# lib/tasks/assets.rake
	namespace :assets do
	task :precompile_if_needed do
	require_relative '../assets_version'

	next unless AssetsVersion.needs_precompile?

	Rake::Task["assets:precompile"].invoke
	AssetsVersion.current.save_to_yaml
	end

	App.Router.map(function() {
	this.resource('post', { path: '/posts/:post_id' });
	});

	App.PostRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
	model: function(params) {
	return this.store.find('post', params.post_id);
	}
	});

	moment.tz.add({
	"zones": {
	"Africa/Algiers": [
	"0:12:12 - LMT 1891_2_15_0_1 0:12:12",
	"0:9:21 - PMT 1911_2_11 0:9:21",
	"0 Algeria WE%sT 1940_1_25_2",
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	"0 Algeria WE%sT 1977_9_21 1",

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	# records in ElasticSearch.
	#
	# The host object needs to respond to 'indexed_attributes', which will return
	# an array of the attributes names to be indexed.
	#
	# It's also recommended to override the 'save?' method to make sure only
	# records that match some specifications are indexed.
	#
	# The type used for the ElasticSearch index will be extracted from the name of

	-- gets all fields from a hash as a dictionary
	local hgetall = function (key)
	local bulk = redis.call('HGETALL', key)
	local result = {}
	local nextkey
	for i, v in ipairs(bulk) do
	if i % 2 == 1 then
	nextkey = v
	else
	result[nextkey] = v

	class TracePoint
	class Middleware

	def initialize(app)
	@app = app
	end

	def call(env)
	stats = {}
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