FernyB

New Feature for LastBridge.net - I have added a small list of station you can now select.

Of course more new features are planned ahead.

It is official LastBridge.net is out for public consumption! Again for those who are lost and don’t know what this “LastBridge” is it’s for listening to your last.fm radio stream on the Roku SoundBridge.I have made a screencast on How To use LastBridge. If anyone still needs help or just want to leave your opinions on this project, leave a comment or two. Thanks.Enjoy!

www.LastBridge.net

What? What is this? Well, yeah… it is another project of mine. I call it LastBridge, like the name? its original… anyways.. So LastBridge is a web app for users of the Roku SoundBridge like myself. Basically you can listen to your last.fm music on the SoundBridge without having to install anything or hosting any files. I previously wrote the same thing in a much cheaper less good looking way, in PHP. This time I have rewritten it using Ruby On Rails. As soon as I release it make sure to check it out.

In Ruby a switch statement looks like this

say = "Hello"

case say
when "Hello" then
	puts "Say Hello"
when "Bye" then
	puts "Say Bye"
end

In PHP a switch statement looks like this

I have written a MySpace Status Updater class in Ruby. So if you want it take it, download it, use it.Download Here Or Download the RubyGem 

How do you use it?

credentials = {:username => ”, :password => ”, :status => %q(Okay Now I am really Done!…)}

@status = MySpace.update_status(credentials) 

Wow, you don’t see rants like this every day. Zed Shaw, who created Mongrel, a library and web server that just about everyone uses to serve rails applications, is basically a God in the Rails community. In a post today called “Rails Is A Ghetto” he tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).via Techcrunch

Hello everyone it is I… Thanks to everyone who as emailed me, said good stuff about my work, and gave me tips and everyone who as made a comment. Thanks everyone!-fernyb