Morning Reflections on Rosecroft

At breakfast this morning, I asked Elizabeth what her impressions of Rosecroft were. I hadn’t felt like my own thoughts, expressed in the previous post, were either perceptive or interesting. Not surprisingly, she had excellent points to make.

An Evening at Rosecroft Raceway

My wife’s uncle is in the DC area this weekend. He doesn’t travel much at all outside Florida, where he retired early some time ago. But he comes up to DC at least once a year to visit his longtime G.P. and to attend the horseraces at Rosecroft Raceway. Elizabeth pointed out we’ve moved to […]

The Ruby Pattern Spy, Part I

Background: A Screen-Scraper I’ve posted about how I needed to build a little app to scrape product pages for information that could then be summarized and presented in an easy-to-copy manner. I’ll write a little about that, and then I’ll get on to the related Ruby project I’m now undertaking. So our ideal solution was […]

Using Ruby for Screen-Scraping and Pattern-Matching

In my last full-time gig, I automated a recurring management task: looking up the “official” names of a client’s products when said products were included in a promotion. This client was actually a holding company — it didn’t own or manage most of its products — and the actual corporate entities that did manage the […]

About mh

Little boots it to the subtle speculatist to stand single in his opinions — unless he gives them proper vent. -Sterne, Tristram Shandy Your author, gentle reader, is Michael Harrison, mostly self-taught computer programmer and sometime wordsmith. This is his blog, in which he will (hopefully) write informative and incisive posts about technology, writing and […]