Biodegradable Geek

Spy on your Enemies and Loved Ones for Fun and Profit

The following is a stealthy keylogger I wrote in C a few years ago called LogThatShit (LTS). It was written on and for Windows XP, and probably works on Vista, but User Account Access (UAC) might prompt the user for a password. It began as a complete Remote Administration Tool (RAT) named Overdose. I realized [...]

How To Use Fixtures to Populate Your Database in Rails

UPDATE: I’ve been using this method for awhile now: http://railspikes.com/2008/2/1/loading-seed-data Seed data is data that the app is dependent on. It is data that has to exist if you were to wipe the database clean and reload your schema. Some examples would be a list of cities/states, a list of categories, or the initial ‘admin’ [...]

Got API? Instantly Search API Documentation

gotAPI.com does an excellent job congregating API documentation for numerous programming languages under an AJAX interface. No more bulging neck veins or fulmination when you can’t remember the order of those pesky arguments. No support for your favorite language? Contribute. You can add a gotAPI Search Widget to your site: http://www.gotapi.com/widgets/index.html See Ruby/Rails widget below [...]

How to POST Form Data Using Ruby

POSTing data on web forms is essential for writing tools and services that interact with resources already available on the web. You can grab information from your Gmail account, add a new thread to a forum from your own app, etc. The following is a brief example on how this can be done in Ruby [...]

Music to Code By – What Do You Listen to While Programming?

Some swear by it, for others it’s a bane: Music while programming. Throughout grade school, we’ve been cautioned not to keep the TV and music on when doing homework, but is it really counter-productive? According to this study, not so, at least for people who are understimulated — which probably accounts for most geeks these [...]