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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Running Ruby "natively" in IIS! Cool

10 steps to get Ruby on Rails running on Windows with IIS FastCGI
Very cool. I haven’t tried it yet, but would like to. We have a production application in ASP.NET that we want to be a RESTful API to, and there is no framework for REST in ASP.NET. I was thinking if we could [...]

Solution to an IE gotcha when developing Facebook App in an IFRAME

This was a very frustrating problem for us in our app Jobs (http://apps.facebook.com/getthejob).
The problem was that in IE, if a parent frame has a different domain than the child page, the session data (stored in the Session object) is not preserved. This is a so-called “security feature.”
Anyway, if you have this problem, the [...]

Pick a Firefox plugin that you can’t live without: FoxMarks

http://www.foxmarks.com/

FoxMarks has been saving me time, headache, and energy ever since I first stumbled upon it last year.
The nickel tour:

Install FoxMarks for Firefox on all PC’s (Win/Mac/Linux/Amiga/TRS-80) that you use.
Create a FoxMarks account from the plugin setup in Firefox.
Sync your bookmarks.
Forever have bookmarks in sync.

You know I wanted to use social bookmark sites like [...]

Is Microsoft doomed? A devotee considers switching to Mac.

I am trying to learn Ruby.
Trying to get out of the development rut I’ve been in.
I love .NET. I love C#. I can build powerful apps very quickly in .NET. However, taking these apps and getting my team to maintain them consistently, and building a web-ready infrastructure around them to support both [...]

New Facebook App: Jobs

Check out this new Facebook app I wrote, Jobs.
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=2ef3f8cc5320897be6432956cc6213dc
You can search jobs, search your friends companies for jobs, and much more!
It was a trip working with the Facebook API. Very powerful. Kudos to Facebook for opening up their platform!!
Shout out to Space Chimp.

LifeHacker - solving my web pet peeves one peeve at a time. Paste multiple lines into input boxes

This is awesome. I am always having to play mouse hockey to get multiple lines pasted into a browser text box.This solves the problem.Thank you LifeHacker.