November 2010
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Webmapps has moved to Github →
Nov 7th
July 2010
1 post
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Poll Everywhere Ruby API Wrapper
[Download] Hey there. I just released the beginnings of a Ruby library for use with Poll Everywhere, an awesome service that will satisfy all of your polling needs. Stay tuned for more features. What is Poll Everywhere? Poll Everywhere is a premium real-time web-based polling service. Poll Everywhere is unique in that it allows users to submit poll responses via SMS, web, twitter, and blog...
Jul 23rd
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January 2010
1 post
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Jan 14th
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October 2009
1 post
“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it,” she said. “Is it...”
– Senator Olympia Snowe, Maine
Oct 13th
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September 2009
1 post
Webmapps Status →
Webmapps is looking excellent, and I am super excited to have something for you all to play with very soon. Follow the link to view a screenshot of Webmapps.
Sep 16th
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July 2009
2 posts
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Rails and the Google App Engine: a proof of...
Everyone’s been talking about the Google App Engine and its recently added support for the Java programming language. This is big news due to JRuby: the implementation of Ruby for the Java Virtual Machine. I decided to write an application to take advantage of various Google technologies inside of a Rails application. I wrote a proof of concept app called Stockapp. Stockapp is a...
Jul 19th
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Deploying a Rails application in Tomcat with...
ol li { margin-bottom: 10px; } Introduction I recently tried to deploy a Rails app in a Tomcat container, thinking it would only take a few minutes. Instead it took a few hours. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to bundle your Rails apps as .war files that can be easily dropped into most Java containers and rapidly deployed. There are tons of resources out there as to how to do...
Jul 1st
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June 2009
3 posts
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Jun 17th
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I'm not an exhibitionist
This is the personal blog of Daniel Cohen. I don’t imagine that it will be super-interesting or anything. Infact, I kind of think blogs are ridiculously self-serving and exhibitionistic anyway. I don’t presume to have any answers for you, or that that my life and contributions have been so significant that an autobiographical account of it is necessary. I’m just a twenty-seven...
Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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