Category Archives: ruby

Interval – a ruby library for musical interval arithmetic

By Nate Murray | Published: November 17, 2009
Interval interval is a tiny library that provides simple musical note pitch and interval arithmetic. It is intended to do one thing: given a pitch add (or subtract) an interval and give the resulting pitch. Observe: p = Interval::Pitch.from_string("c") i = Interval::Interval.from_string("M3") p2 = p + i p2.to_short_name # => "e"   i.to_s # => "Major Third"   i2 = Interval::Interval.from_string("p5") i2.to_s # => "Perfect Fifth"   (p2 [...]
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“Easily” setup a monitored Hadoop / Hive Cluster in EC2 with PoolParty

By Nate Murray | Published: July 8, 2009
Summary Setting up a scalable Hadoop cluster isn’t easy, but PoolParty makes it easier and manageable. By the time we’re done with this tutorial you’ll have a Hadoop cluster consisting of one master node and two slaves. The slaves are formatted with HDFS and process MapReduce jobs that are delegated to them from the master. The whole [...]
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git-style-binaries screencast

By Nate Murray | Published: June 10, 2009
Just released: git-style-binaries ruby gem. Checkout the README on github. Checkout the screencast.
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