Category: Inventions

Last week, Tommy visited me in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. After exploring the city a bit, he asked me to help him set up his academic homepage. Here is what he’s got. On the basis of his positive feedback, I am offering free personal homepage design under the following conditions. You must provide strong reasons… Continue reading Free homepage design

Recently, I learned some basics of ruby through Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, and I wrote an automated crawler to visit the home pages of other people on renren, the Chinese version of facebook. Here is the source code. You may save it as renren-crawler.rb. require ‘net/http’ require ‘CGI’ $email = ‘[email protected]’ # Enter Your… Continue reading A Web Crawler for Renren: A Ruby Approach