sghael

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by sghael 16y ago
Ryan Bates / Railscast for lots of useful Gem reviews. Other than that its a lot of "I don't want to write this..."; Google: "[thing I don't want to write] gem rails 3 github"
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by sghael 16y ago
And this is why HN rocks. Thanks Daniel
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by sghael 16y ago
I can't go as far as saying that I prefer one more than the other. They're both pretty awesome in their own way. I'm actually way more comfortable with Django, but the Gem eco-system with Rails is amazingly mature, and the Rack based appro
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by sghael 16y ago
You account balance is purely stubbed out. Right now there is no balance tracking (so it's basically free until I bake that in). I probably should have put some thought into pricing before posting on HN, but pricing is one of those eternal
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by sghael 16y ago
I'm using Linode server w/ pretty standard Cap deploy. Using jammit and minification tools to pre-process some assets (like widget js code).
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by sghael 16y ago
It should work, although I have only nominally tested international numbers. What country are you in?
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by sghael 16y ago
absolutely -- gem 'rails', '3.0.4' gem "mysql", "2.8.1" gem 'capistrano', '2.5.19' gem 'capistrano-ext', '1.2.1' gem 'awesome_print', '0.3.1' gem 'closure-compiler', '1.0.0' gem 'compass', '0.10.6' gem 'devise', '1.1.6' gem 'fancy-buttons',
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by sghael 16y ago
I'm using Twilio defaults -- Which means International is SMS only, and US+Canada works with Voice or SMS.
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by sghael 16y ago
I wrote Phoneify over the last couple of weeks using Rails 3, Twilio and a variety of Gems, putting in about 2 hours per day. I'd love any feedback from the HN community on any aspects of the site (design, API construction, documentation,
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Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio(phoneify.com)
95 points by sghael 16y ago|57 comments
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by sghael 16y ago
What's with the sudden surge of Boston tech scene cheerleading articles on HN? I'm new to Cambridge (just moved here a few months ago), and so far have nothing but love for the area (even compared to 8 years in Bay Area). But it's startin
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by sghael 16y ago
But that only solves for the case of predictable events. If you want to remain agile, and do deployments on an as-needed basis, then you need to cache bust with file naming or query parameters as I mention in other msg. Again, I'm pretty
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by sghael 16y ago
I don't disagree they they must have their act together to support such big online launches. But for cache busting, isn't it just a simply matter of renaming resources and having your framework + deploy scripts manage the rest for you? mos
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by sghael 16y ago
huh? Its not like your tasks info is passing through his server. Seriously, is this a breach of etiquette?
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by sghael 16y ago
This brings up something I'm waffling on. Whats the correct content type for JSON? in your example returning "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" which is nice because FF knows to render it in the browser (good for debugging atleast).
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by sghael 16y ago
We're looking to add 1-2 (part-time) to our small, developer driven team. * Currently a bootstrapped venture, self funded * Revenue generating with extremely low burn. * Killer product, great marketing, solid position (#1 for several compet
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by sghael 16y ago
Without knowing the details of this company, here is my theory: With established companies, with established revenue and legacy product/process, management thinking is probably something along the lines of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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by sghael 16y ago
That article and corresponding REE marketing pages do a great job of telling me why I should use REE. Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't use REE? (Currently using MRI 1.8.7)
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by sghael 16y ago
It's great to see the ideas like CI trickle into the that startup world at large, to the point where we have VC blogging about it. The thing that's amazing to me is that anyone would choose to NOT work like this. If you are web-based start
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by sghael 16y ago
While the examples (HN and old Digg) are minimal, I also find them "un-refined". I prefer minimal and refined. Like Delicious. Simple color palette, lots of white space, and no extraneous stuff like gradients, rounded corners, drop shadow
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by sghael 16y ago
I'm a user/dabbler of OSQA, and the project is very nice. However, IMO there are several things holding the project back from greater community involvement: 1) the lack of an official GIT backed repo. 2) the current state of tickets (who's
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by sghael 16y ago
We do this in a different context for our webapp work. We have three primary environments: development, staging and production. We code a contextual, 20px high, colored div at the top of our master template. It's red for development, ye
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by sghael 16y ago
Thanks for the project! Will definitely try it out soon.
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by sghael 16y ago
Sorry if I came off snarky in my question. I def didn't mean it that way. Your explanation makes some sense, but (IMO) engineering teams should just strive to have developers own the testing process, especially if you except it to be "agil
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by sghael 16y ago
What the heck is an agile tester?
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by sghael 16y ago
definitely agree that the state of CI projects for Ruby/Rails is not great. I was using CruiseControl.rb on Rails 2.x with success, but getting it to play well when moving to Bundler/RVM was way more difficult than it should have been. I
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ActiveInterview Data Backup & Protection Rules(blog.activeinterview.com)
13 points by sghael 16y ago|2 comments
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by sghael 16y ago
congrats on the first few paying customers. Feels great, doesn't it? 1) if you have enough "volume" of unique and registrations, analyze you acquisition cost. How is it relative to your margins? Try to account for externalities (your tim
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by sghael 16y ago
Just curious -- how are you using it?
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by sghael 16y ago
"The trick is you have to document everything you type step by step. The problem programmers have is they know how to install this stuff like it's second nature, so they skip details and important steps that non-programmers just don't know

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