Pricing Experiment Follow Up
Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback.
More …A Pricing Experiment
Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out.
More …Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers
I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client project required background processing, I re-evaluated my stock approach to see if I could simplify a bit.
More …Quick Tip: Sending Google Chart links via email
Recently I had a client who wanted to deliver reports via email that contained a bunch of charts, and we decided on using Google Charts for the chart rendering. I used the googlecharts gem to create the links to Google. I encountered a problem with the charts not showing up in Gmail, even when the exact same code was working when viewing the reports at the site in the browser.
More …Faker 0.9.0 released
It's been two-and-a-half years since the last release of the faker gem, so it's about time for another one. :) For a long time I've been kicking around the idea of using the I18n gem to make it easier to support different formats (think zip codes in the US vs. postal codes in the UK) without having to change the method signatures, so I sat down today to give it a whirl. I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly I was able to get it implemented, so kudos to the folks who have done all the hard work of making that gem work as well as it does.
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