Zac Clark zacclark

So yesterday brought the sad news that Google Reader is being killed off. C’est la vie it seems, given it was a Google product. In my search for an alternative I rediscovered Fever and decided to see if I could run it up for free on Heroku. Onwards...

Personally I think the news about Reeder is quite sad, as I would quite happily have paid for it as a service. In fact I like RSS so much that I actually shelled out the $30 for Fever when it first came out years ago (I was also pretty massive Shaun Inman fanboy if I’m being honest).

I ended up setting Fever aside because screw having to manage self-hosting for PHP and MySQL, right?

If you’re new to Fever I recommend going and checking it out, but also reading the post in response to the Google Reader announcement by Fevers author, Shaun, for a good list of what Fever is and isn’t.

Enough jibba-jabba!

	import UIKit

	protocol StoryboardBacked:class {
	static func newFromStoryboardWithName(name:String?, bundle:NSBundle?) -> Self
	}

	extension StoryboardBacked {
	static func newFromStoryboardWithName(name:String?, bundle:NSBundle?) -> Self {
	let realName = name ?? NSStringFromClass(self as AnyClass).componentsSeparatedByString(".").last!
	let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: realName, bundle: bundle)

	# Xcode 4.3.3
	Apple clang version 3.1 (tags/Apple/clang-318.0.61) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
	Target: x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0
	Thread model: posix

	# Xcode 4.3.2
	Apple clang version 3.1 (tags/Apple/clang-318.0.58) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
	Target: x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0
	Thread model: posix

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	class PostsController < ActionController::Base
	def create
	Post.create(post_params)
	end

	def update
	Post.find(params[:id]).update_attributes!(post_params)
	end

	private

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	# this is best practice for writing mixins. the deferred evaluation is more
	# powerful that the approach of ClassMethods/InstanceMethods as modules too
	#

	module Mixin
	# put your class level code in here
	#
	ClassMethods = proc do

	# http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/file.GUIDE.html

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'spreadsheet'

	book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
	sheet1 = book.create_worksheet

	sheet1.name = 'Testing Naming'

	class Array

	# Array.zipper: like Array#zip, but produces and full and even distributed
	# array for 1,2, or N arrays. eg:
	#
	# a = %w( a b c d e f g h i )
	# b = %w( 0 1 2 )
	# c = %w( A B C D E F )
	#
	# zippered = Array.zipper(a, b, c)

	require 'nfc'

	tags = {
	"04823691212580" => "Fitter, happier, more productive",
	"04673391212580" => "comfortable",
	"04C33091212580" => "not drinking too much",
	"04C92C91212580" => "regular exercise at the gym",
	"04F15D91212580" => "three days a week",
	"041C9F91212581" => "getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries",
	"04D79A91212580" => "at ease",