I’ve been using Heroku for years and it is a great service with great support. Our company, AtomicJolt uses it for all new projects since we an quickly bring up a new site on a free account and show it to our customers. One problem we frequently run into is the database row limit when…
Using The AvantLink API To Streamline Your Affiliate Efforts
Justin Ball CTO AtomicJolt GearSnyper, SnapLinker, SnapSearcher http://www.justinball.com It Would Be Really Cool If… Open All The Things! Open Source APIs Open Content Open Source Moved from installs to services Developers read the code. Create better integrations Result is a healthy community of applications Open Content Kahn Academy MIT Open Courseware Creative Commons Users win…
Crossed 4000 miles for the year tonight
Tonight riding with the Logan Race Club up Blacksmith Fork Canyon I crossed 4000 miles so far for the year. Thanks to Shawn Collins and Affiliate Summit that’s $4000 towards breast cancer research. I love to ride, but each time I ride there’s the added motivation that every mile is another dollar towards a cure.
We are amazing. Riding the MS150
When I was a kid I saved up and purchased a Specialized Rockhopper. For a 14 year old the $450 spent was all the money in the world. It bought Shimano Exage components and a rigid fork and frame. This was the early days of mainstream mountain biking. I immediately became a fan of Specialized…
Biking and Raising Money
I woke up at 5:51 this morning and rode hundred miles. I didn’t mean to. I stayed up way to late. I didn’t eat right. I’m filled with excuses. Not meaning to ride sounds odd and it is. The act of riding is intentional and the number of miles ridden can’t be an accident. Riding…
Secure ElasticSearch behind Nginx using Docker on Digital Ocean
I’ve been a big fan of Elastic Search for a very long time. It’s a great piece of software that can be used as an object database as well as a search index. I realize that’s not the intention of the software but it works so I’m happy. Elastic Search doesn’t have security built in…
I put on a little fat. It’s kinda sexy
Salsa Beargrease The Salsa Beargrease is what happens when a Ferrari and an Abrams Tank have a one night stand. The bastard child of the cycling industry, fat bikes are finding their place in the mainstream of mountain biking. While most sales guys will tell you these odd balls with ginormous tires find purpose in…
Ember Conf 2014 Summary and Resources
This is a mainly a list of links to notes that others took and a few of my own notes from Ember Conf. Some Great Write Ups: What’s coming in ember in 2014 (Not Ember Conf, but very helpful) Brian Cardarella – “Ember Conf picks up where the Rails community left off” Conference summary by…
Ember Conf 2014 Wrap Up
Ember.js’ strength as a framework is second only to its power as a community. Over the past two days at Ember Conf I’ve had a chance to interact with some of the top minds in the Javascript world who are shaping the future of the web. Brian Cardarella did an excellent job summarizing the mood…
ActiveRecord has_many through multiple models
More than a few times now I’ve run into a situation where I really need to be able to relate one object to another through multiple tables – basically use ‘has_many’ twice. Here’s an example set of objects where a user can have many products but to get to the products you have to first…