Webstore by Amazon

28 Jan 2008

I got an email from Amazon about their new WebStore by Amazon offering. Like Shopify, it’s a just-add-water storefront for people wanting to sell their products.

This seems like a natural step for Amazon, considering their recent product offerings like payment processing and fulfillment services.

Perhaps my days of building custom e-commerce applications for clients like Griffin Technology are numbered?



Buzz and DEMO Buzz

28 Jan 2008

Catch the Best got a mention in the Working Podcast, a great resource for career advice.

On a related note, StandoutJobs is getting a ton of coverage by virtue of being at DEMO, not to mention getting a $2 million investment. That should bring some welcome attention to the space addressed by hiring management tools like Catch the Best. :)



Catch the Best in the Montreal Gazette

24 Jan 2008

Mark Stachiew, writing for the Montreal Gazette, mentioned Catch the Best in his latest Networthy column. Thanks, Mark!



Faker 0.3.0 released

1 Jan 2008

Thanks to the contributions of a couple of people on the mailing list, and thanks to a client who wanted some Lorem Ipsum text to be generated, Faker 0.3.0 has been released.

Here are the changes:

  • Added Lorem to generate fake Latin

  • Added secondary_address to Address, and made inclusion of secondary address in street_address optional (false by default).

  • Added UK address methods [Caius Durling]

Go get it.



Painless Rails action caching with memcached

14 Dec 2007

The past couple of weeks I’ve had the good fortune to work with a great client on a Rails app that gets a lot of traffic. His server was groaning, and the wheels were starting to fall off the cart. So we dug in. And when we were done, we had a pretty cool caching setup that I wanted to share.

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