daguar

=begin

Every day I use Ruby I see more and more why people become evangelists.

Take today: I was toying with evaluating different approaches to match two
data sources (API results and a giant local database), and I realized, 
"wait! this is a job for yield!"

So I wrote a pleasant little module with a function that:
- Takes a block which attempts to match an API object to rows in the 

daguar

# I bumped into some problems installing Drake ( https://github.com/Factual/drake ) on OSX, so here's what I did:

# 1. Follow the installation instructions here up through "Run Drake from the uberjar":
# https://github.com/Factual/drake/blob/251a22b27b5ded1fff522f39f06d3e06c77daf74/README.md
# (This is the specific README version I used.)

# 2. Move the 'drake' directory to Applications:
mv drake/ ~/Applications/

# 3. Install Drip ( https://github.com/flatland/drip ) for speedier load time.

daguar

require 'pry'
require 'rubillow'

Rubillow.configure do |config|
  config.zwsid = ENV["ZILLOW_KEY"]
end

hoods = Rubillow::Neighborhood.region_children({ :state => 'IN', :city => 'South Bend', :childtype => 'neighborhood' })
# Hash method -- not using
#hood_region_ids = Hash.new

daguar

[alias]
  amend = commit --amend -a
  br = branch
  co = checkout
  ds = diff --staged
  di = diff
  fetchall = fetch -v --all
  log-fancy = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(cyan)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
  log-me = !UN=$(git config user.name)&& git log --author="\"$UN\"" --pretty=format:'%h %cd %s' --date=short
  log-nice = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

daguar

Leaflet documentation:

http://leafletjs.com/reference.html

Simple Mapbox map:

https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/example/v1.0.0/

Leaflet plug-in to use common tile providers:

daguar

// Quantizing data into buckets

function Quantizer(data_array) {
  min = d3.min(data)
  max = d3.max(data)

  this.quantizeNumber = d3.scale.quantize()
      .domain([min,max])
      .range([1,5]) // Start with only mapping on 1-5 color scale
}

daguar

"Why no Ruby in government?"

Talk @ SF Ruby, 1/27/14

Sarah's slides are available here.

The speaker was Sarah Allen (ultrasaurus), a returning Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) who was at the Smithsonian Institution. Sarah covered a lot about her experiences as a PIF generally, but also had one big point about the technology/government divide:

In her view, a large majority of government web projects are fundamentally CMS systems with a few customizations specific to the project. When she got to DC, she didn't want to use PHP, but -- precisely because Ruby doesn't have any well-supported, "clear winner" CMSs -- she couldn't justify rebuilding a lot of the functionality that Wordpress or Drupal give you out-of-the-box.

While there are a bunch of Ruby CMSs ( https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/content_management_systems ) there's nothing at the point of being a clear winner with a strong commun

daguar

<!-- Drag and drop based from @remy's HTML5 demos: https://github.com/remy/html5demos -->

<title>File API</title>
<style>
#holder { border: 10px dashed #ccc; width: 300px; height: 300px; margin: 20px auto;}
#holder.hover { border: 10px dashed #333; }
</style>


<article>

daguar

daguar

Goal

Iterate over an array of numbers and print each value

Python

array = [1,2,3,4]

for number in array: