Clemens Kofler has a great post about when to raise exceptions within your Rails application:
Over the years I’ve come up with a little rule of thumb for exceptions:
Libraries Should Raise, Applications Should Not Raise.
Yes, it’s as simple as that. To understand the reasons for my rule of thumb, we have to switch to the world [...]
I’ve been looking for a microframework for Ruby that is simple like Camping but supports RESTful resources like Rails. A tip from the Denver Rails UG pointed me to Sinatra via Adam @ Heroku’s Blog:
Sinatra apps are typically written in a single file. It starts up and shuts down nearly instantaneously. It doesn’t use much [...]
Anyone noticed the striking similarities the Windows Live APIs have to Hailstorm? George Moore, General Manager, Live Platform Services posted an interesting article outlining the unified storage APIs becoming available:
For the first time ever we have a unified protocol and developer tooling story across most of our major storage products from Microsoft:
On-premises structured storage: SQL [...]
I was trying to setup the proper environment settings in Rails 2 to support cross-subdomain cookie sharing (so the user doesn’t have to login again if they manage multiple subdomain accounts). I was experiencing some inconsistencies when trying to make sure it was working. Here is a tip:
Clear your cookies (the Firefox Web Developer plug-in [...]
I’ve been working on a project that uses a little XHR mixed into the app to update DIVs on a page. The problem with the RESTful Authentication plugin is that it will always send a redirect back to the browser if the user is no longer logged in, but the XHR callback will simply try [...]
Here is a great example of making your visitors feel like they have found something special from: popurls. Click on the thumbnail to view full image:
So, what are the lessons for your startup?
Making someone feel special, smart, “in the know”, or that they found “the real deal” goes far
A personalized message goes even further
It [...]
A new episode of Greg the Architect called “SOA this. SOA that.” reminds me why I help startups get to market and solve problems:
Seth Godin has an interesting post today about how free stops getting attention:
The interaction you seek as a marketer often disappears when something is free. The fascinating thing is that it often doesn’t matter if you’re paying or being paid… it’s the transaction either way that changes the posture of the person you’re working with.
I [...]
Welcome to those of you visiting my blog who were at the Godbit Dinner Monday night during SXSW! Thanks for a great evening of fun and fellowship!
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I’m working on a new project that is using the RESTful Authentication generator with Rails 2. As I started to take advantage of the label references capability in Rails 2, I ran into some problems. The default fixtures provided by RESTful Authentication look like this:
quentin:
id: 1
login: quentin
email: quentin@example.com
[...]
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