Ship It Quicker

Shipped software can provide A/B test results and behavior data, which can help clarify whether a feature is worth enhancing or abandoning. It is important for the team to embrace shipping software (without hurting quality) to keep planning meetings short...

Bundler In Practice

We recently deployed a Rails 3 application that uses Bundler to manage dependencies. We freeze the gems in the application so it can be deployed on the same boxes as other applications that have different gems. It is best to...

A/B Testing with Vanity

Vanity is an A/B Testing framework for Ruby on Rails applications. I covered A/Bingo previously which is a similar framework. We have moved to Vanity at work as our A/B testing tool for a number of reasons. We are using...

Getting Started with A/Bingo and Rails 3

A/Bingo is a “A/B” or “split” testing framework to try out different text or images (or other things) and see how they perform relative to each other. Vanity is the another a/b testing option for Rails applications, and is probably...

Notify Me

We recently started work on a new iPhone app and wanted to promote the app and find out who is interested in trying it out. Now that we’ve made progress on the app privately, it seemed like a good time...

jQuery Conference Boston 2010

jQuery Conference took place in Boston over two days in October. John Resig kicked it off with a keynote and the sessions generally covered testing and large-scale JavaScript applications, jQuery UI, (the just-released) jQuery Mobile, and widgets and effects. Below...

Surge Conference 2010

Surge Conference was held in Baltimore, MD in September 2010, put on by OmniTI. Some attendees compared it to the Velocity conference which also covers web performance, scalability, and operations.