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Creating a Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing database from PDF tables in #jruby #ruby #rails

Susceptibility Testing is used to determine the likelihood that a particular antibiotic or antifungal drug will be effective in stopping the growth of the bacteria or fungi causing your infection.CLSI has published interpretation criteria for these tests. The raw data are either in the form of a zone size or MIC.

While PDF’s are a handy way of distributing immutable documents they make it…

Maryland Folk Fest - Folk #Metal in #Baltimore TONIGHT!

I haven’t been posting enough metal posts lately but luckily tonight is Marlyand Folk Fest.  Paganfest isn’t coming to America this year, so someone made their own for Baltimore Folk Metal fans. Expect some pics and reviews from tonights show. Tickets should still be available at the door. Check out the facebook page for more information. These bands are playing tonight: ÆTHER REALM Sekengard…

Wascally Wabbits Season (or killing Fibonacci Rabbits in Wuby) #ruby #bioinformatics

Recurrence Relations and the Mortal Fibonacci Rabbits

The Fibonacci sequence appears throughout the natural world, and it dates back over two millennia to its first use by Indian mathematicians; yet its name derives from Leonardo of Pisa, who popularized the sequence in the West by introducing it as an exercise involving a population of rabbits in 1202. His assumption about the population were…

#Ruby For Good retrospective and shameless taco endorsement @rubyforgood

 MINASWAN in action (An Introduction)

Ruby for Good is an annual event based out of the DC-metro area where Ruby programmers from all over the globe get together over a weekend to build projects to help our communities. The conference took place at George Mason University with the participants staying in the dorms and brainstorming, hacking, and cooking together in communal areas. 

The text from…

Learning bioinformatics with Ruby @exercism_io

The Arlington Ruby meetup recently had a night covering Exercism.ioand although I missed that meetup due to a particularly long day at work I finally got a chance to look at the site. It is a really cool concept where you can write test driven code in a large list of languages and then submit your results to the site using the exercism cli. They describe it as “Crowd-sourced code mentorship.…

John Sonmez for President 2016 @jsonmez

I listen to NPR on the way home most days and it seems like every other day they announce another presidential candidate. I won’t get into the politics of it all because frankly I am burned out on it. It’s parade of insincere self serving con artists seeking the ultimate power to further their own agenda.

If I was going to nominate a candidate it would be John Sonmez. I have no idea what his…

As a PHP programmer from back in the day (it was a Tuesday). I was curious and started reading “Rails for PHP Developers” by Derek DeVries and Mike Naberezny. It’s an older book, out of print but I was curious how others who came from PHP approached the subject. I found the second paragraph in this quote mildly disturbing and I hope this isn’t a current view of Rails or Ruby for that matter by…

What kind of programmer are you? @JEG2

I keep running across these  “What kind of programmer are you?” lists. Of course, these are silly exaggerations and generalizations intended as ad view fodder. I know few people that could be pigeon holed in the “Gandalf” or “Ninja” it’s no different than astrological signs in terms of accuracy.

It did get me thinking though. What kind of programmer am I? Did my co-workers spot my beard and…

Fun with Resumes. Quick resume in #rails #ruby

Being in the IT world I think it’s a good idea to update your resume every 3 months or so. I usually keep an online resume and a printed resume but I wanted to have a little fun with bootstrap and rails and come up with something that is quicker to edit and more flexible. The result is at resume.adamlwalker.com and uses Bootstrap, jQuery, Rails4 with nested forms and active admin. The default…

RURO Releases version 7 of FreezerPro® 7 released

The new upgrade contains more than 100 fixes and enhancements. FreezerPro® version 7 is highlighted by a new UI that, while a drastic technological progression, maintains the best of the legacy user experience. It also features a new FreezerPro® Virtual Machine (VM) that now requires less memory from its host server or computer in order to achieve optimal performance. Perhaps most importantly,…

Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual @jsonmez

“When you sit down to do you work in the morning, what is one of the first things you do? That’s right, check email. And who sends you email? Is it computers? Does your code send you an email asking you to finish it or to make it better? No. People do.”

– John Sonmez, Soft Skills

Okay John, challenge accepted!

require 'date' require 'sendemail' Dir.glob('/Users/adam/Development/*') do |rb_file|…

The Motorola FOCUS66 WiFi HD camera is a really cool little cam with cloud recording through hubbleconnected.com. You can set the FOCUS66 to automatically record when it detects motion and send you an alert via the Anroid/IOS app. The problem? hubble doesn’t let you set times of day for notifications or recordings.

My solution is to setup a cron job to interact with the website and turn…

New profile page, upcoming posts and some random esoteric stuff

My original page, adamlwalker.com, now points to its own one page about.me style page. It’s a beta but I am pretty happy with the new design. Please feel free to critique it.

Coming up on MetalPolyglot:

– The un/official terms for Ruby operator names – (directed at my co-worker) Yes, I prefer to call {} crab claws and a #{} is a octocrab!

– Pmetal – First glance at my Heavy Metal themed esoteric…

Efficiently combining strings in Ruby with benchmarks and Blind Guardian

I have the pleasure of working with my daughter who is a intern at the software company where I work. During our drive home one day the conversation turned to  string concatenation. She asked why would some add a string with a + instead of << (alias to concat). I’ll be the first to admit I have done this myself but it’s a bit of a code smell so I here is an explanation of why she is right.

I am…

Heavy Metal Polyglot Programming #trollfest

I was previously using the domain adamlwalker.com but to be honest it was boring me. It didn’t feel authenticate and I wasn’t posting frequently enough. This new site incorporates my love of Metal music and programming into one. I plan on pointing the old domain to either my github or about page.

It may seem like an odd fit but I code while listening to metal and for me it feels natural. Each…

I am getting very excited as I plan out a Zero to Production training course for all non devs in our company. Everyone in the company is invited and the course starts with a intro to HTML and will end with each participant deploying a Rails app on Digital Ocean via docker.

Topics:

HTML

CSS

jquery

Bootstrap

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Git

I am planning to include lessons on TDD, unit testing and general…