Archive for the 'Programming' category

Recurring billing with Braintree and ActiveMerchant

If you’re using ActiveMerchant and want to setup recurring billing support for Braintree, you should be able to just modify the post parameters being sent across to include your recurring plan name in the following method in the Braintree gateway: Braintree pastie If you want to know more about ActiveMerchant, check out the Peepcode PDF. [...]

Trouble with acts_as_taggable_on_steroids

The tag_counts instance method appears broken. I don’t have time to submit a patch right now, so I figured I’d write a quick post for others running into this issue. What I’m seeing is that if you try to access the tag_counts instance method (ie: @post.tag_counts), you’ll see a good times SQL exception much like [...]

Rails Plugin for MailChimp

A plugin that beats the monkey metaphors to death: script/plugin install git://github.com/matthewjcarlson/acts_as_chimp . Let me know if it does or doesn’t work. It’s less a library then an implementation of a use case I’ve encountered a few times recently. As such, while plugins are falling out of favor a bit, I felt like a plugin [...]

Rails and MailChimp

acts_as_chimp plugin underway this evening….finished product will be here shortly. update: an early version of the plugin has been added to a github repository. Please see this post.

Is Your Site Green?

Interesting post from the High Performace Web Sites Blogs. Perhaps not surprisingly, efficient page serving is good for your users and our environment.

Sun not feeling Groovy?

What language will feel the love next?

OpenID Foundation Growing

Interesting news for OpenID usage

Try on some Ruby Shoes

New Shoes

Do It Wrong Quickly

Paul Graham on Building Stuff. 37 Signals on doing the same

Software Methodologies

Try them all!