This is the complete archive of posts from my blog in reverse chronological order.
Adhearsion Survey Results View Comments
We surveyed Adhearsion users to find out how it is being used in the wild, and what factors are important to the people and projects using it. Here are the results.
Adhearsion Voice Platforms - A Comparison View Comments
When I’m at conferences or working with Mojo Lingo clients, I’m often asked about voice application projects that use the Adhearsion framework. Hopefully by providing an overview of the main decision points, you’ll be able to arrive at the most sensible choice of platform for your Adhearsion project.
Refactoring for SRP - an example View Comments
There is much material available online that covers the theory of the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), but few real world examples. Here's one taken from a medium size open-source codebase just this week.
Adhearsion 2 - Call Controllers & Routing View Comments
Adhearsion 2 presents a new way to write applications - Call Controllers & the call router. Here we'll explain why these changes have been made and how to make use of the new features.
Adhearsion's RESTful Click2Call returns View Comments
Unfortunately, the Adhearsion restful_clicktocall component has been broken for some time. But fear not, we've fixed it up.
A Countdown Latch in Ruby View Comments
Java's CountDownLatch has many uses in concurrent applications. I've ported the API to Ruby and highlight some potential uses here.
Stateful fun on Heroku View Comments
Heroku's new stack allows running all sorts of processes, including XMPP bots based on Blather
Time.now in AR model specs is evil View Comments
If you’re stubbing Time.now based on some value of Time.now in an ActiveRecord model spec, then saving before you assert equality, beware. Time.now is accurate to milliseconds, but the database is not. Always use Time.parse with a string to ensure you’re only accurate to the second in your stubbed value for comparison.
Why I don’t like Skype (And why you shouldn’t either) View Comments
Communicating with others is far too important to be left in the hands of one company with a sub-optimal product. But why is there no good competition?
Doing too much will kill you View Comments
Nothing in business is more valuable than focus. We've learned that the hard way.
Simply The Best...Why Ruby wins the happy programmer test every time View Comments
Ruby just makes everything more concise, readable and understandable
Old Operating Systems View Comments
Many things hold us back, but none more so than old Microsoft products long past their retirement date
My 'This Week in Startups' Question View Comments
I had a question to ask Jason Calacanis about statups and market positioning in time