For any folks out there struggling to get the Ruby OAuth gem working with Netflix authentication, here’s a quick run down on how to get started. The 0.2.7 version of Ruby OAuth isn’t totally compatible with the Netflix authentication APIs. However, thanks to the grooviness that it is GitHub, Rob Ares graciously forked the OAuth [...]
I’ve apparently caught the DM Adapter bug, as I’ve decided to write one to access Netflix while I finish up my MailChimp adapter. I’ll be posting as I go along, as I’ve been learning quite a bit about the inner workings of DataMapper while going through this process. Cheers.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve started looking into writing DataMapper Adapters, using my MailChimp wrapper as an example. Thus far, I’ve been pretty impressed with the Adapter layer built into DataMapper and the possibilities this abstraction layer provides. A quick search over at GitHub will show you all the interesting things folks [...]
A while back, I was asked to build some code to help keep a businesses mailing list synchronized between SalesForce.com and their campaign management tool, which I suggested should be MailChimp and not the tool they were currently using, but I digress. The project never materialized, but I figured I would build it anyway and [...]
Some interesting resources and news in the world of web site optimization recently. Good stuff for those who care about this sort of thing. I look forward to clogging up my works print queue with Velocity presentations on Monday even though printing is a bit evil.
If you do anything web design or development related or just have some free time on your hands and feel like contributing to an interesting independent publisher, I highly recommend checking out Luke Wroblewski’s book on web form design. While somewhere in my subconscious I’ve definitely been annoyed by filling out forms, I hadn’t really [...]
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 [...]
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.
Location, location, location. Now this is interesting…. In some industries they say location can be everything…
Interesting post from the High Performace Web Sites Blogs. Perhaps not surprisingly, efficient page serving is good for your users and our environment.