So in preparation for Rails Rumble I’ve been researching a lot of sexy little plugins. We have also had a need to test this plugins to make sure they’ll work not just locally but in a shared hosting environment (the first time you get burned and spend an entire weekend, 16 hours, trying to figure [...]
This app was tricky in two ways. First it was the first real Facebook app I have done, which meant there was a large learning curve as things that work just fine with a regular Rails site some times just don’t work with Facebook. Ajax and JavaScript in particular are completely different, and require [...]
So after a good long while in development and being kept under wraps I’m finally able to write about the newest big project I’ve been a part of, Kiobo. Kiobo’s goal is:
Kiobo helps users enrich their browsing experience by making browsing a more social activity. We enable users to explore and leverage their social graph’s [...]