Fellow Three Screen Games (the company that created FanGamb) co-founder, Robert Shedd, wrote a tutorial detailing how to safely update a database using the Facebook platform’s callback urls in a Rails app.
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ActiveRecord is awesome. Its dynamic finder methods, scopes, and effortless joins make working with a database a snap. But there are always those times when writing raw sql makes more sense. In my case, I was joining across several tables, and then sorting by a value from the joined table. The problem was that my [...]
As a side project, I’ve been working on a mobile site to track my local bus system. I’ll have a more detailed post about that once it is a fully polished site. Essentially, the site parses some xml with longitude/latitude data and uses a maps api to display the location. All fairly simple, and it’s [...]
A fun game has been sweeping the Internets. No, it doesn’t involve answering 25 questions on Facebook. It is speculation about Twitter’s future as a profitable business. Advertising Age recently published an article with (well-sourced) speculation of their own:
Certainly there’s an AdWords-like business there, but, as [Todd] Chaffee [an Institutional Venture Partners general partner and [...]
I’ve been playing around with Google App Engine quite a bit lately. Whenever I’d create a new project, I’d start by copying and pasting a folder called “new_project_template” which is included in the software developers kit. The template contains a bare-minimum hello world script. As I made more and more apps, I realized that I [...]
I’ve been a big fan of Bit.ly. The added utility it provides to link shortening is unmatched. It makes tinyurl.com look like the url shortener of simpletons. Using Bit.ly conveys that you are tech-savvy to a certain degree. But what if you want the benefits of Bit.ly, without looking pretentious? Use biturlly. It’s a simple [...]
