…repeating and forwarded the mail to their bizdev guy. The bizdev guy used it the next day to close a 500 seat license.)
Stripe : Despite some issues with, primarily, corporate American Express cards thinking that $2k charges for training materials were a little suspicious, Stripe was extraordinarily easy to integrate and reasonably priced, like usual. In addition, unlike one might reasonably expect for a merchant account or Paypal, St
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- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: MongoMapper 0.8: Goodies Galore
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- flow: named_scope - start using it!
Winding down another long week.
BootMetro - Just in case you want to make your web app look like Windows ' Metro' UI.
Meet Chef (Part 2 of 2) - The first part of this PeepCode was well worth watching. I expect this one will be too.
Growing a Rails Application: How We Made Deploy Fast Again - Advice from the PagerDuty folks.
Rails 3.2 Membership Site - Featuring recurring billing via Stripe, this template looks like a good starting point.
…month, and no customer has ever had a problem after I explain it. (Editor's note: Somebody from Stripe emailed me a work-around — just don't feed Stripe.js a price and it won't pre-auth the card.)
If you're US-based, you can use Stripe, too, and they have my unreserved don't-even-bother-looking-elsewhere recommendation. If you're not US-based, I feel your pain, and hope Stripe expands to your neck of the woods as quickly as possible. (In the meanwhile, …
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…like Dropbox, FreshBooks, Highrise, Pivotal, Stripe, and many more.
Bug 707662 - spdy null deref - Aw, my very own Firefox bug.
TorqueBox v2.0.0.beta1 Released - First beta of the next version of TorqueBox, a JBoss/ JRuby application server for rack applications like Rails and Sinatra.
about:about - Firefox at least has an about page to list about pages. I didn't know that.
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS - Interesting …
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…I've promised them a case study post someday, but the capsule version is that if you can use Stripe you shouldn't be using anything else.)
The problem appears to be, simply, that less users hit our trial limitations now. (Hitting the 15 card trial limit is the overwhelming cause of going to the purchasing page.) This suggests that either a) the new site is converting more parents than the old one used to, and since parents rarely have 15 children they're simply having a happy …
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…CC-based payment system. I tested this extensively in A/B tests. I love everything about the Stripe system, but I have no evidence for "Stripe is better than Paypal/Google Checkout", " Stripe/Paypal/Google Checkout is better than Paypal / Google Checkout", etc etc. That said, it might be something as simple as my buttons being ugly. I'll probably take a whack at it in the future, or better yet, have my designer take a whack at it.
I did a few …
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