…designs across a range of different email clients. The founders attended 37signals' Building of Basecamp workshop in Copenhagen and afterwards self-funded the business. It's now "significantly above $1m in revenue, very profitable, and growing by around 10% every month," according to founder Paul Farnell.
Litmus shows you screenshots of your email newsletter as it looks across all major email clients.
According to Farnell, there is no exit strategy:
We have …
- The messagepub Blog: Litmus uses messagepub for IM notifications
- How Software is Built: Interview with Jason Huggins - CTO of Sauce Labs / Selenium
Building JRuby with C Extension Support
Like building JRuby proper, building the cext work is probably the easiest thing you'll do all day (assuming the C compiler/build/toolchain doesn't bite you.
Check out (or fork and check out) the JRuby repository from http://github.com/jruby/jruby :
git clone git://github.com/jruby/jruby.git
Switch to the "cext" branch:
git checkout -b cext origin/cext
Do a clean build of JRuby plus the cext subsystem:
- casperfabricius.com: Multiple Ruby versions with RVM
- format internet:: Video of my talk "Jruby On Rails" at the Sun Open Communities Forum
- The Queue Blog: Daily Review #47
- Think in code - Home: Improving JRuby 1.9 compatibility
- SKORKS: Using Multiple Rubies Seamlessly On The One Machine With Rvm
- Pragmatic Bookshelf: Using JRuby now in Beta; New Issue of PragPub
- Building Windows Phone 7 apps with Silverlight 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Session 3
- Building Windows Phone 7 games with XNA 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon Q&A 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m. Lunch, followed by the Coding Challenge
Bring your laptops, form a team and try your hand at building a Windows Phone 7 app or game in an afternoon! 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Coding Challenge Results
Teams will present their apps, one will …
- Global Nerdy: Crunch Time for Windows Phone
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
…Community, Even If You Just Got So Fired That The Cops Hauled You Out Of The Building In Handcuffs . Part of my magic formula includes understanding Google PageRank, and the best way to understand complex, abstract mathematics is to reduce them to a very short Ruby script. As an aside, you'd be surprised how many complex, abstract theoretical thingamajigs can condense down to just a few lines of easily understandable Ruby.
value="true" /> /> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" …
- Giles Bowkett: Another Happy Customer
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Meet Applicake crew at European Ruby Conference this weekend.
- paperplanes: Conference Talks You Should Be Watching
- a work on process: Character encodings, Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2
- PaulBarry.com: Fibers in Ruby 1.9
- Eddorre.com: Tutorial: Filtering Results with jQuery UI Slider and Rails 3 Beta 3
Social Developer Summit - June 29, 2010 - San Franciso, CA
A meeting of the technically social - Building, scaling, and profiting in a social age
Whether it's social games, social news, social discovery, social search, or other forms of social solutions , developers today are facing new hurdles in building instantly scalable products. As new technologies emerge to address the challenges faced by social application developers, it's increasingly important to come together for knowledge sharing purposes.
…Community, Even If You Just Got So Fired That The Cops Hauled You Out Of The Building In Handcuffs . You also need to include the hashtag # appsinmypants .
The rules are open-ended, and that's a deliberate choice. You can submit just about anything as long as it complies with these rules.
So to be clear, to play your tweet must:
Use the hashtag # appsinmypants .
Include a link to this blog post.
Use this remark in a funny way, or link to something on your own …
Seven Golden Link Building Strategies
Link building is no small part of web marketing. Getting your links in the right place and seen by the right people can help your site rank better for keyword searches, and can also drive valuable traffic to your site.
The folks over at Cemper.com posted a great guide to building links recently. And with the millions of "Best Link Building Guide Ever" posts out there, that's saying something. Link building is …
- Jason Seifer: Liveblogging Bizconf
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Are you ready to join the Search Marketing Arena?
- Pathfinder Development: Destroying the Village — How not to Save the Newspaper Industry
- ZURBlog: Our Newest ZURBians
- The Queue Blog: Daily Review #52
- Software by Rob: Book Recommendations - The Best Marketing Books of All Time
This presentation was scheduled just before the Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight series for those developers who want to build apps for Windows Phone, but have never built a Silverlight application before. Think of it as " Silverlight 101". It's presented by Silverlight Program Manager Shawn Oster , who like me, spent some time away from .NET in the world of PHP and Ruby on Rails before joining Microsoft. Shawn will walk through …
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
Rails in the Large: How We're Building One of the Largest Rails Apps for an Enterprise Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks
Bundler: Painless Dependency Management André Arko, Engine Yard
Active Record Makeover: Rekindle the relationship Marty Haught, Haught Codeworks
With a Mighty Hammer Ben Scofield, Viget Labs
Scaling with Cassandra Ryan King, Twitter
Data Driven Applications with Ruby and MongoDB Kyle Banker and John Taber, 10gen …
- Riding Rails - home: Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010
- Envy Labs: Rails 3 Beautiful Code