Thursday
Jul282011

Supporting Android 2.x and 3.x in the same codebase

Supporting different codebases of an application for different platforms can become complicated and more trouble than it is worth. If you want to take advantage of the Fragments UI controls in Android 3.x while still supporting Android 2.x, you can definitely do so within the same application.

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Tuesday
Jul122011

Creating and Emailing PDFs with RoR in Windows and Linux Environments Using Wicked PDF

There are many gems for PDF generation for Rails but the difficulty comes with picking and using one that fits your needs. Some of the most popular are Prawn/Prawnto, PDFKit and WickedPDF.

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Monday
Jun272011

Pay Per Click And You

We recently started advertising our services on Google through their AdWords platform. About 3 days in we decided that we needed to streamline the site and provide better keywords to Google to improve the experience for users clicking on our ads. This meant stopping advertising, re-designing our site and migrating our content to SquareSpace, tweaking the ad campaign and then re-launching.

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Tuesday
Jun212011

Migrating to SquareSpace from TypePad & AWS EC2 Instance

Our old design was showing its age. It had two domains, one for our main ‘brochure’ site and one for our corporate blog. Resulting in two different PageRanks from Google and a somewhat jarring visual change when going from one to the other. We started to run an AdWords campaign and realized that we needed to modernize the look and feel of the site, improve the SEO footprint, and reduce our costs at the same time.

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Wednesday
Jun012011

Device Anywhere: Ease the Pain of Mobile Application Testing

I recently used DeviceAnywhere to test a mobile file management application on the Google Android platform and these are some of my thoughts.

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