So I finally had time exploring Rails 5 after quite a busy schedule. First order of business– check out Action Cable as it seems to be one of the most promising features to Rails 5. To understand Action Cable, I had to understand WebSockets first. WebSockets…wut? Clearly, the online world has been largely built around the…
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Ruby Gem That Makes Your Model Activatable
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
Aktibibo is a simple Ruby gem that makes your model activatable. It allows an ActiveRecord model to be declared as “activatable” thus providing scopes for querying and filtering objects. Of course, the module adds convenience methods for setting an instance as active, inactive or deactivated. As an additional feature, it also saves the activation and deactivation dates because it uses datetime DB…
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My First RubyGem Is Called Sorty Sorter
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
In the Ruby world, mixins are very popular. In fact, I’ve created a number of basic mixins (or concerns) in Rails projects and so it came to a point where I wanted to try converting it to a gem. Why? Because why not? Well, just for the experience. Anyway, my first RubyGem is called Sorty Sorter. It sorts AR collection…
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Fun Times with Hubsan X4 H107C+
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
When I was in El Nido, I saw this guy flying a white drone. It was very stable and I didn’t know what brand it was. Turns out, it’s a DJI Phantom quadcopter. I was very ready to buy one when I got back until I realized, I don’t want to break it just like that…
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Time-Lapse Video Generator Using Raspberry Pi
by Kat Padilla • • 2 Comments
So, I’ve been tinkering with my Raspberry Pi for the past couple of days. This weekend, I started with my time-lapse video generator using Raspberry Pi and its camera module. Taking snapshots is easy because RPi has a built-in raspistill command: raspistill -hf -vf -x -o melody.jpg There are many options which you can find here. When I connected the camera…
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Setting Up Raspbian on Raspberry Pi
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
The very first thing that I did was to download an OS that my Raspberry Pi will use. There are many options like NOOBS and Ubuntu Mate but everyone’s sold with Raspbian so I chose it as well. Setting Up Raspbian on Raspberry Pi After I’m done downloading the OS here, using was not as easy as transferring it…
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Meet Ernie
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
Note: This blog post is 2 weeks late. We (as usual, I was with Mark Steve) joined this event called Textify and we were given a month or so to think of an SMS-based project and build it. It was hosted by Chikka with the help of Smart DevNet to promote the use of the recently launched Chikka SMS API platform. At…
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My Twitter Favoriter Experiment
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
I wanted to prove that favoriting semi-random tweets increases followers in Twitter. I wrote a “bot” that favorites tweets that contain hashtags that I’m interested in. For my own peace of mind, I didn’t choose mainstream or popular hashtags (ie. #KathNiel) because I wanted to have a set of quality followers. I’m sure there have…
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Hello DigitalOcean!
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
It’s not uncommon for people to start from a shared hosting. I did! I used 1freehosting for quite a while until it couldn’t handle my stuff anymore. I mean, not the traffic, just the overall things that I want to do (and deploy). This week, I officially said goodbye to 1freehosting. (Please don’t judge me). Thnks…
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DxS: The Coffee Slayer
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
A clone of the game Heavy Bird created using the Phaser framework which is a clone of the widely-popular game Flappy Bird. It’s basically cloneception! Anyway, the main difference is that it doesn’t score up when you get pass a tower. It scores++ when you collect Starbucks drinks. I also made it shake and throw random blocks when you…