November 2010
1 post
Webmapps has moved to Github →
July 2010
2 posts
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Poll Everywhere Ruby API Wrapper
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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...
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The Importance of The Why
A Company’s success lies not in what they do, but rather why they do it. Companies that are greatly successful (like Apple, Google, and Southwest Airlines for example) are so not because of the services and products they provide— because often competing products are far more similar than we’d believe them to be (what are the differences between the iPhone and Droid, really??). In...
May 2010
1 post
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Hiyiah!
What is it with job posters using phrases like “Ninja” or better yet, “Rockstar” to describe their ideal candidate? Why would a software developer ever conjure up these images? Have these job posters ever met a rockstar before? Rockstars sleep all day, and party and play music at night. Ninjas throw stars and use nunchucks. I’m not so sure these are these qualities...
January 2010
1 post
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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
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.
July 2009
1 post
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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...
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Deploying a Rails application in Tomcat with...
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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...
June 2009
4 posts
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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...
