We all know that we can search web pages for text, but there are services that go beyond a simple text search and use features like location and or image data. The hurdle relying on these features is that normally the end users have to enter manually the appropriate data. When was the last time [...]
Because there isn’t much useful about this log message: I thought writing a small blog entry about the ‘why’ and ‘how can I get rid off the message’. First, the why. In Ruby JSON comes in two different flavors, native (json/ext) and Ruby only (json/pure). When Gems reference both versions, a bunch of constants get [...]
Rails 3.1 will come with some great performance improvements. One of the features is called “Automatic Flushing”. See how Rails 3.1 will make your site faster
Sending emails is an essential part of every web application. Setting up an email server isn’t to difficult, getting the emails to recipient without getting marked as “spam” is. Using Sendgrid solves both problems for you and offers other features too. However, I don’t care much for a rich feature set, for me it is [...]
Neil Ford of ThoughtWorks talks in this presentation about experiences and lessons learned while they built a complex high traffic site with Rails. First he tells us why they decided to use Ruby on Rails. Then he explains how they try to keep the development team as productive as possible. E.g. to accelerate testing, they [...]
