http://www.bencurtis.com Speculations on Web Development by Benjamin Curtis Thu, 01 May 2008 16:50:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I used to love the company Overnight Prints. They offer a great product at reasonable prices and with reasonable service. Until this week, I had no reservation about referring them to anyone who needed some printing done, and I saw no need to even shop around for any ... http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/05/1-tip-to-make-your-customers-love-you/ A lot of us are building web applications that we sell (or hope to sell) to customers on a subscription basis, like Catch the Best. Every time you and I build one of those applications, we need to build a billing system to go along with it. I ... http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/ Now Amazon's EC2 supports static IP addresses that can be pointed at any of your instances on the fly. This is cool. http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/03/ec2-just-got-10x-better/ Many moons ago I wrote a quick status report on my first 100 days of Rails consulting. Now that it has been over a year since I joined the freelance world full time, I figured it was a good time to reflect again on that experience. I said it then, ... http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/03/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-rails-freelancer/ I recently integrated the Scribd API with my resume management application, Catch the Best, so I thought I'd share a few details here about how I did that in case you are interested in using their great API. To get started, first you need to install the rscribd gem and set ... http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/03/integrating-scribd-with-your-rails-application/