About Jimmy Ruska

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About Jimmy Ruska Posted on Wednesday, March 26 2008

I'm Jimmy Ruska. I was born Oct. 20 1985.

Skills

Here's my most relevant skills in order of competence, though I won't list anything I'm bad at. Some are actively being improved, and some past fads.

PHP, MySQL, Ajax, Linux as a Server
Fluent Spanish, decent writing
Mastery of Regular Expressions
Understanding of sockets and http packet manipulation
Encoding/Avisynth/Virtualdub/Color Spaces/aegisub
cURL
Chess
Photoshop / Gimp image manipulation
Actionscript 2
C Programming
Dos Commands / Batch files / Autohotkey
French: Decent understanding and reading, bad speech/writing
Piano / Ear training
Firefox XUL and extension Making
Familiarity with Win32 API
Actionscript 3
Familiarity with SDL library

Best Accomplishments

Youtube API Crawler: Youtube most common searches; Grabs 1000 videos for any keyword. gets the word frequency of all high rated videos and finds more keywords.; Grabbed over 5 million pages of videos rated over 4.7 stars with over 50 ratings.
Pitch Macro: Can accurately detect high frequencies without an FFT. Gets the frequency of tiny sections, removes outliers and averages them.; Editing a config file can let you call a shell command and depending on the frequency range.; It's a C program compiled in gcc using the portaudio library.
Youtube Channel: Jimmy Ruska's Video tutorials; Over 20,000 subscribers and I'm a youtube partner now!
Blog and Organizer: Built from scratch parser made for maximum laziness in formatting.
Speed Math Programs: Page: Speed Math; I've made several speed math programs. One of the is RPG stype! Unfortunately flash released actionscript 3 which I have yet to fully learn. It changed most everything.
PHP Brute Force Program: Generates all possible combinations for any given set of characters and either saves it to a file or actively compares to a given hash. It can loop through infinitely adding one character more after all possibilities are exhausted or it can only test a set character length. Can test a million salted md5s 7.5 seconds.
Free quiz creator: Test yourself for any exam with my free quiz creator. It has a very simple way to build a quiz and no login is required. It didn't get popular despite my hard work ='(.
Custom firefox extension: I can select a range of text and alt right click to read, and alt left click to translate. The translate language is changable and comes from sending and parsing post data from google translate. I can also select individual words. I cannot release it, I use php to parse google translate and sodels as a command line TTS that can read from a text file. Some of the code has been modified from answers.com firefox extension, which allows from alt clicking without highlighting a selection. I can also select a list of images and download them all with curl with a spoofed referer and useragent at a single keypress, renaming to retain their original order on the page.

Most Buzz

Google is better than Limewire: My how to download mp3s from google tutorial has over 1.5 million views on youtube and got another 1 million views on break.com before I requested removal (the jerks submitted it without my permission and didn't accept the vid with my logo on it). My free mp3 search engine has had millions of hits.
Free Online Education: My online education site has been hovering in the top 5 google results for the search "online education". It's usually #1. It even made it to the diggnation podcast.
Hearing loss test: As you get older your hearing gets worse and you can't hear higher frequencies. You can test your hearing with my tool.
Google Video Secret Categories: I was the first one to find all the google video categories even before google released them as searchable to the public.

My Sites

JimmyR.com: The best of the internet puts the top stories all on one page from the following sites: digg, reddit, fark, youtube, technorati, delicious, wired news, lifehacker, wikihow, stumbleupon, google news, and bbc today in history.
Eliteskills.com: Started in 2003. It was intended to be an online writing community with a nightmare before christmas theme. Most people that came though posted their poems and nobody liked reading anybody else's work. I guess it would have been better to make it like a big disgusting chat room and social network about nothing, like myspace. Meh targeting failed.

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