roobasoft blog » Ruby http://roobasoft.com/blog Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Introducing WhenIsThat.net http://roobasoft.com/blog/2009/03/17/introducing-whenisthatnet/ http://roobasoft.com/blog/2009/03/17/introducing-whenisthatnet/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:15:47 +0000 BrianC http://roobasoft.com/blog/?p=144 Google knows how to do a lot of conversions. It understands queries like ‘2 cups in liters’. That’s awesome. One thing it doesn’t do is time zone conversions. I kept asking Google to convert things like ‘2pm MDT in CET’ but it never worked. So I created a simple time converting website.

WhenIsThat.net doesn’t support a lot of zones or cities yet, but I’ll teach it as time goes on. If this is something that plagues you, give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

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GoogleAuth.setup_captcha("some@email.com")

After that runs, the next time I try ClientLogin with that email address it’s almost guaranteed that the CAPTCHA requirement will happen.

The script is available at http://gist.github.com/11820

As you can see, the script just hammers away trying to log into the given account until Google returns with the CaptchaRequired response.

No this isn’t nice or pretty. Ideally Google would let us pass a parameter that would force the CAPTCHA requirement to happen. Until then, this works.

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