Tag Archives: code

Finished the Koans!

I spent the last few days going through the Ruby Koans I mentioned in my previous post, and I stand by my initial opinion that it’s easily the best and quickest way to get into the language. I had too much fun doing them, and know much more Ruby than when I began. The best [...]

Get notified by email when a web page changes

Just a quick mini Linux shell/Bash script that scrapes a web page and lets you know by email if the value you want is there. In my case, I want to get notified when an Amazon article appears in the Amazon store. Lynx does all the work, so make sure you have that. You’ll also [...]