Heroku Database Limits
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hardware Hacking with JS
With the Cache Maker club we’re always looking for ways to make it easier for kids to interact with hardware. Traditionally, interacting with hardware meant learning assembly or…
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Bringing the Web Back to the Blind with Ryan Florence
Ryan Florence presenting “Bringing the Web Back to the Blind”. Probably the biggest accessiblity resource on the web: webaim.org. Accessiblity Accessiblity is more than just alt…
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Vector Programming and Reactive Javascript
The Functional Part Don’t describe how to process the data using a loop instead have your code state what you want to happen. Use functional concepts to build nice observable…
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Pete Hunt – Be predictable, not correct.
Mountain West Javascript starts today. Peter Hunt, Facebook developer and contributor to reactjs.org is first up presenting “Be predictable, not correct.” Here’s my notes: Even…
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Refactoring and Making Promises
After spending the last year writing Ember.js code I’ve realized one really big thing – Ember is about promises. I recently had a chance to refactor some code with a number of…
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Ember.js Lessons Learned So Far
Ember.js Lessons Learned and Stuff Justin Ball / @jbasdf Justin Ball CTO Atomic Jolt Consultant, Rubyist, Javascriptist, Cyclist, Maker, Entrepreneur Purveyor of Buzzwords What is…
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Beautiful day. Had to blow off work for a ride
I’ve spent the winter on a trainer. I don’t mind the experience so much. It’s not like riding outside, but I do it in hopes of maintaining some level of fitness during the winter…
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Firefox, Vimeo and Froogaloop Have a Little Problem
On one of our latest projects we’re integrating with Vimeo. They provide a great Video player API that makes it pretty simple to interact with videos. Vimeo even provides the…
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Omniauth, Devise and Facebook Client Login Don’t Play Nice
I’ve had to use Facebook login inside an iframe twice now. Combine Devise with omniauth and omniauth-facebook and you have a pretty great user authentication system. Now try to…
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Open Assessments Code Sprint with OERPub, MIT and Lumen
I’ve been spending a lot more hours driving back and forth between Salt Lake City and Logan lately than I normally like. Today was spent integrating Open Assessments with OERPub…