Ze Frank (And Memari) Get Featured In A TechCrunch Article
e Frank, the popular video blogger and internet personality, recently announced that he is getting $500,000 in VC money to fund a new startup for social video games. The startup is in its early stages and still doesn't even have a website.
Gartner: Agile is Mature And Proven
Michael Blechar, vice president in Gartner’s Applications Architecture Research division, just posted his thoughts on Agile development, a development method we at ELC prefer to achieve superior results. Blechar’s post go back to a recently publis...
IBM Cloud Service Now Online
IBM is now officially providing cloud computing infrastructure services and will wraps up the beta phase on June 30.
Interesting HTML5 Projects That Further Prove Flash Is On Its Way Out
I for one am very excited about the adoption of HTML5. Now with Canvas, WebGL, and Web Sockets among many other libraries, you now have the power to create robust web applications that truly function like their desktop equivalents.
I wanted to share with you, some...Duck it.
Ruby is not a strongly typed language so we sometimes need to check types explicitly. In a ducktyped world this might be less obvious than you might think. In particular, testing code that is testing input types explicitly can be harder than needed. This morning I came to work with a bunch of spec failures...
Using will_paginate in sinatra
Want some sweet pagination on your sinatra app? I know it’s a loaded question with sinatra’s methodology of keeping things slim, but here goes.
There is a framework agnostic branch of mislav-will_paginate on github. What I did was pull that into vendor/gems and added the following code to make it work.
$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/vendor/gems/will_paginate/lib' # using...
Page Caching JSONP with Nginx and Rack (and Memcached!)
If you’re reading this, you are most likely familiar with the same origin policy, and JSONP’s place in the mix. Working with JSONP is pretty straight-forward, but the small piece of dynamics that it introduces can often hinder the performance you could normally get out of serving content straight from memory or disk. I’m going...
