AutoLoading (or, table reflection) using Elixir

I spent a while knocking this together once before, then deleted it, so when I set out to find it again, I found this rather handy Guide to Elixir Autoloading. Thank you, whoever wrote that! I really don't get why this can't be as simple as ActiveRecord, but sure, whatever, Python does like to be complicated. (I'm going to get myself a programming blog and move this stuff away from Shrieking, I promise!)

Graphs!

A while back I started thinking about providing a way to sparkgraph stuff through Twitter, and although Simon totally beat me to it, I got there in the end, so in my sidebar I can now graph anything I want. The backbone of the thing is a Twitterfeed that you won't want to follow and it uses the Ruby on Rails implementation of Sparklines, which is pretty cool, although I'm running it on mod_rails which is uber-slow. If you're freakish about graphs, you might want to have a look at Daytum. It's just in beta but it looks quite exciting. (Thanks to Vicky for the link!)

Live

It's always exciting when software gets finished and milestones get hit, so I'm very excited to tell you all that the site I work on (as in, for money, not the junk I make in my spare time) is now in beta and is ready for your visitation. Head over to BillMonitor and check it out, if you like. Also, I now blog for money occasionally, which is very exciting. You can read me on the BillMonitor blog.