This blog is moving to http://leadthinking.com
There will still be a lot of posts on development and Ruby, but I also am going to focus more on the business side of things.
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So, it’s been a bit quiet around here as I’ve been blogging on the company blog, madebymany.co.uk. This is a cross post.
Whether you’re building a new website, or want to manage your community more effectively - moderation is a common requirement.
Unfortunately computers haven’t got to the stage where they can recognize libelous/offensive images - […]
I’ve been working on an open source SaaS solution for Rails over Christmas called Saasy (pronouced “sarrsy” - using a posh voice).
Saasy provides:
Subscription management
Recurring billing
Credit card management
User authentication and SSO
Mailers for invoices etc
On Saturday I did a presentation at Ruby Manor on using recommendation systems in production featuring our plugin, acts as recommendable (AAR).
This was, without a doubt, the best conference I’ve been too - and the icing on the cake was the leftover £500 behind a students bar afterwards - ginger beers for everyone!
Graham Ashton has […]
Taelor has just written a brilliant Juggernaut tutorial which is well worth checking out, especially if you’re new to the project.
I also want to take this opportunity to list some of the other tutorials
Juggernaut - up to date tutorial
Juggernaut, Push Server, The future of the web
Juggernaut - Rails Spikes (out of date but […]
I’ve been blogging over at Made by Many’s site about Recommendations & Collaborative Filtering regarding my new Rails plugin, ‘acts_as_recommendable‘.
I recommend subscribing to Made by Many’s feed, as there are a lot of interesting articles there, and I’m sure there will be a lot more forthcoming too.
Incidentally, I’m also talking at Rails Conf Europe […]
Update: download has been cracked again.
After Paul’s neat hack to allow downloading of IPlayer programs, I thought I’d also improve the IPlayer’s pink experience by providing an RSS feed.
The Big British Castle, in their infinite wisdom, don’t provide a feed to the IPlayer, but instead email you updates - how antiquated is that!
So, I’ve […]
I was interested in the performance differences between Twisted and EventMachine for an application I’ve developing which is going to have to handle a lot of load as clients will be regularly polling it.
Disclaimer: I’m fairly new to Python and Twisted - so there may be a way of speeding them up which I’m […]
If you’re looking for an easy way to customize css depending on the browser, without relying on JavaScript, this should be some help:
ApplicationHelper
def browser_name
@browser_name ||= begin
ua = request.env[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’].downcase
if ua.index(’msie’) && !ua.index(’opera’) && !ua.index(’webtv’)
[…]
Charles Nutter has announced the completion of the JRuby compiler. This means that firstly we have more compiler options (which is never a bad thing), and secondly that Ruby/Rails apps can now be compiled to Java bytecode - so it’s possible to distribute your application without distributing the source.
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