Tag Archive for 'ruby-on-rails'

Does Ruby on Rails scale?

Old question I hear you think But still it will get asked when you start Ruby on Rails projects for clients. One way of comforting a client is just naming a few RoR success stories: “Twitter uses Rails, it has about 8.000.000 unique visitors a month.”.
Evan Weaver has a nice comparison of some […]

Track yourself and your (stolen) Iphone

So.. I saw the homepage of Tijs Teulings and got inspired with his ‘my current location’ thingy. As you can see on the map, it uses an Iphone (I guess).
Now..this is the way to create something like that:

Install the Navizon application on your Iphone. Using installer.
Create the needed account for it.
Start Navizon and set ‘Appear […]

Hyves API v1.0 for Ruby

Hyves (the #1 social network in The Netherlands) released their API v1.0 a few weeks ago. We already created some kind of Ruby wrapper some time ago (for the old API), but now we have a (very quickly created) wrapper for v1.0.
It works as follows:

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require ‘hyves_api/hyves_api’
# You need to apply for a key via http://www.hyves.nl/api/apply/
key […]




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