Dave Elkins » web http://daveelkins.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Introducing GroopBuyr gem http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:24:31 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=202 I have built and release the GroopBuyr gem at http://github.com/elkinsware/groopbuyr. This is a simple wrapper around the GroopBuy API to get deals through their api.

GroopBuy is a company that aggregates deals from many sites like GroupOn, LivingSocial and others so you can find all the deals for a city in one place. The API is really simple and easy to use.

You can install it by running this command:
gem install groopbuyr

You can see the code at http://github.com/elkinsware/groopbuyr.

Let me know what you think.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/07/22/introducing-groopbuyr-gem/feed/ 0 Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:07:01 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=195 http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text

http://particletree.com/notebook/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/

http://wufoo.com/

http://wufoo.com/2008/09/16/report-upgrades-and-new-graphs/

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.hexdec.php#74092

http://www.barelyfitz.com/

http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/03/11/calculating-color-contrast-for-legible-text/feed/ 0 The problem with passwords by A List Apart http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:00 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=186 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-problem-with-passwords/

An interesting article about making password entry a little more user friendly and the hazards.

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/09/the-problem-with-passwords-by-a-list-apart/feed/ 0 Carsonifed.com post: Bulletproof backups for MySQL http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:53:54 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=173 http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/04/carsonifed-com-post-bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/feed/ 0 Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:33:42 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=170 Good post about a possible issue with Passenger, Interlock, Cache Fu and Memcached

http://plasti.cx/2010/02/03/getting-passenger-to-play-nice-with-interlock-cache_fu-and-memcached

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/03/good-post-about-a-possible-issue-with-passenger-interlock-cache-fu-and-memcached/feed/ 0 More Rails 3 post! http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/01/more-rails-3-post/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/01/more-rails-3-post/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:30 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=164 SafeBuffers by Katz – http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0

New Validation Methods by lindsaar.net – http://lindsaar.net/2010/1/31/validates_rails_3_awesome_is_true

rails-upgrade plugin by omgboglol – http://omgbloglol.com/post/364624593/rails-upgrade-is-now-an-official-plugin

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/02/01/more-rails-3-post/feed/ 0 A good security checklist from Sarah Allen http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/28/a-good-security-checklist-from-sarah-allen/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/28/a-good-security-checklist-from-sarah-allen/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:11:42 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=160 http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2010/01/rails-security-review-checklist/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/28/a-good-security-checklist-from-sarah-allen/feed/ 0 Tips for sending email from web sites http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/26/tips-for-sending-email-from-web-sites/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/26/tips-for-sending-email-from-web-sites/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:53:26 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=157 A good list of things to check and setup for sending emails from a website:

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/tips-for-sending-valid-e-mails-from-websites/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/26/tips-for-sending-email-from-web-sites/feed/ 0 Jason Calacanis’s latest revolution: Down with ComScore http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/25/jason-calacaniss-latest-revolution-down-with-comscore/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/25/jason-calacaniss-latest-revolution-down-with-comscore/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:03:47 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=153 http://calacanis.com/2010/01/23/why-we-should-boycott-comscore-and-perhaps-why-traders-should-short-their-stock/

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]]> http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/25/jason-calacaniss-latest-revolution-down-with-comscore/feed/ 0 good rails blog posts http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/25/good-rails-blog-posts/ http://daveelkins.com/2010/01/25/good-rails-blog-posts/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:54:38 +0000 dave http://daveelkins.com/?p=147 Permanent Link to Polymorphic association support added to searchlogic

http://www.binarylogic.com/2010/01/23/polymorphic-association-support-added-to-searchlogic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+binarylogic+%28Binary+Logic%29

more page dynamics, less client logic

http://pivotallabs.com/users/jb/blog/articles/1134-more-page-dynamics-less-client-logic

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