…@ DynamicEdge - A rundown of some options for receiving email in your Rails 3 app
Cocoia Blog » iPhone 4 icon PSD file - PSD file for iPhone, iPad and the rest of the iOS suite, whatever that turns out to be.
All the sizes of iOS app icons - Neven Mrgan's tumbl - visual guide to iOS icons
12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make - css tips for web developers
Design Optimization: Webbynode's Front Page +45% conversion rates. …
- Rails Inside: Remail: Send and Receive E-mail Through Google App Engine for Free
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #098
Shawn Konopinksy shows us his social music app, " Songbuzz".
Mark Arteaga shows us his open data app, VanGuide.
Mike Kasprzak demos his match-the-objects-to-eliminate-them game, "Smiles".
The Real Thing
With the practice run done, I had a little time to grab a drink and chat with some of the guests as they arrived:
Steve Syfuhs, Todd Lamothe and Colin Melia.
And soon after, it was time to start the presentations. I did the "opening monologue", …
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
- Giles Bowkett: Tôi Kratistôi (And Good Riddance)
…write a quick script to access the API, or integrate the API into an existing app, OAuth 1.x is overkill. There's documentation from Twitter on all of this, but when I tried it out for myself the other night, it was an exercise in frustration, and I found myself following documentation from various places to get it working.
Registering the App
First, register an app, called a consumer in OAuth parlance, at dev.twitter.com/apps . I'm using a single " …
- BenCurtis.com: Testing an OAuth Provider in your Rails App
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Midwest 2010 Saturday
- Intridea - Company Blog: MultiJSON: The swappable JSON handler
- Stake Ventures Inc.: How OAuth beat Chip and Pin
- casperfabricius.com: Google Apps OpenID with Rails and Devise
- How Software is Built: Interview with Joseph Smarr - CTO - Plaxo
…around Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. The Social App Workshop last month was proof of the interest with a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling a basement on a great summer Saturday.
Social platforms are sweeping enterprises as well. From internal communities for collaboration to external communities with millions of users, enterprises are finding social software essential to how they work. Today we're announcing a partnership with the leader in this space - …
…something useful, something appealing—something creative. A lot of people are actively visualizing how people can interact with tools, especially mobile ones, to do things. If this is the kind of excitement that motivates people, I want an app for that.
Pathfinder Development - creating innovative software that builds business value.
This App is Your App: This App Was Made for You and Me
- Justin Leitgeb: iPhone app development with Ruby web services
- JJinuxLand: Ruby: Interesting Things from the Rails Book
- Smarticus: Is your App really a Piece of Shit?
- Recent Posts in Announcements | Rails Magazine: Rails Magazine Issue #3 - Free Download
- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: A Hint of Hubris
- Global Nerdy: Be a Windows Phone 7/Imagine Cup Rock Star!
Appcelerator View RSS Feed | Two App Guys - quick rss reader tutorial using appcelerator titanium
Devise 1.1 is out and ready to rock with Rails 3 | Plataforma Tecnologia Blog - why devise 1.1 will rock your rails 3 auths
Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing? - If you can't find ten people who say they'll buy it, your company is bullshit.
Techneur - The Startup Idea Filter - idea a.d.d.
CoffeeScript - …
- Giles Bowkett: Review: Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #099
- Signal vs. Noise: This week in Twitter
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 11-6-09
- Ruby Inside: CoffeeScript: A New Language With A Pure Ruby Compiler
- Dr Nic: Using CoffeeScript in Rails and even on Heroku
Lately, I've been taking it easy. I've been taking it so easy, I've even had time to read blogs that are off my normal beaten path. Today I read " Your App is a Piece of Shit ." by Renae Bair . I enjoyed it, but after thinking about it over a drive down to the Bay, I can't let this one pass without a little commentary.
I'm going to presume that the gist of this rant is that there is a lot of crappy web sites out there. We as a community …
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Android
- Intridea - Company Blog: Mashable Now Available for Android
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 5-29-10
- Giles Bowkett: Abundance vs. Demand
- MySQL Performance Blog: Scaling: Consider both Size and Load
- Blog | The Working Group: May 7th - Good People Drinking Wine And Talking
Last month's Social App Workshop was a huge success. With a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling the basement of our new office, a great lineup of presenters and some fun coding in the afternoon it surpassed our expectations. Social App Workshop is a hacker event for new and experienced developers working on Twitter & Facebook apps. With a combination of presentations and coding the workshop brings developers together to work on social apps.
The morning was spent …
- techno weenie: Ruby 1.9 on Heroku
- Rail Spikes - Home: Rake task for deploying to Heroku
- DigitalHobbit: Rails in the Cloud: AWS, Heroku, and Morph
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Heroku - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: Unveiling My Second Product (Demo Included)
- Tammer Saleh: Managing Heroku environment variables for local development
…"It's just so easy-Heroku scales up fast and RPM offers instant visibility into our production app," Jared said. "RPM and Heroku are such a great fit because they both enable myfdb to respond quickly. The hands-off nature of Heroku's hosting is unbeatable sand and the one-click implementation of New Relic made it the best way to monitor our application's performance."
Results
For Jared, there's no question that New Relic has been a valuable …
- techno weenie: Ruby 1.9 on Heroku
- Heroku: Update & Roadmap
- Dr Nic: Customized Google Forms
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Heroku - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- redirect_to :hack: Collaborative Facebook development with Facebooker
- DigitalHobbit: Rails in the Cloud: AWS, Heroku, and Morph
…did a video application for our iOS position. Just a quick web cam presentation of themselves and an app. Great way to differentiate
longstride : my BIG news!! RT @ @ 37signals : Please welcome with us our new support ninja, @ longstride ! Today's his first day!
mattlinderman : Back in the 70s, after 2 decades of cool temps, " Global Cooling" theory received attention in Time & Newsweek. http://bit.ly/r74xi
joshpeek …