Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...
Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...
Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I’d try it out.I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into your...
Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out. I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into...
Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out. I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into...

Maybe I'm weird (actually, there's no maybe about it) but when I first heard about Rails 3.1 getting CoffeeScript and Sass out of the box, I wanted to see how it worked and how smooth the process would be. So...
Guess what? Yep, the forthcoming Rails 3.1 is going to be bringing in a few new friends as dependencies: CoffeeScript, jQuery, and Sass. What does this mean? Why has this been controversial? I'm going to quickly run through the details here.
jQuery...
Guess what? Yep, the forthcoming Rails 3.1 is going to be bringing in a few new friends as dependencies: CoffeeScript, jQuery, and Sass. What does this mean? Why has this been controversial? I'm going to quickly run through the details here.
jQuery...
I’ve been interested in simplifying lately…. using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...
I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...
I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...
Recently I had a client who wanted to deliver reports via email that contained a bunch of charts, and we decided on using Google Charts for the chart rendering. I used the googlecharts gem to create the links to Google. I encountered a problem with the charts not showing up in Gmail, even when the...