Web sockets are awesome, although it’s not exactly new technology. You would assume that there is a wealth of information out there on the internet covering every possible use case you can imagine however recently I came across a problem that I had assumed would have a heavily documented solution online, but as it turns Read More
Storing and retrieving large chunks of data from your database can be tricky if it’s not done correctly. What happens when you want to store a relatively large document or body of text in your database but that large chunk of text is likely to be identical for thousands of new records? You’re faced with Read More
This is a revised post based on the popular original article found at Uploading To S3 With AngularJS The content is similar other than a few key steps which have been removed/altered but for the sake of clean reading, I thought I would create a new post for it.
A little while back I found myself needing to handle file uploads without touching the application server. This is a common scenario for people using Heroku as they limit all requests to 30 seconds, which in theory sounds fine for most requests, but destroys any chance you have at directly handling file uploads within your Read More
Toggling UI elements is a chore that nobody enjoys. Back when your web apps were primarily jQuery or raw JavaScript you would need to wire up an event handler, catch the click event, determine the current visibility state and switch it. A fairly small job, but still an annoying one when you have a page Read More
It’s slightly frustrating looking through your users table and seeing a bunch of accounts that signed up but never confirmed, only existing in this limbo land where you can’t quite count them as a conversion and they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. This rake task will look through your users Read More
Want to use Gravatar in your AngularJS app? Use this simple directive to insert Gravatar images in your app. Before you get started, you will need to make sure you have an MD5 hashed version of your users email address. Gravatar uses this hashed version of the email address in order to determine which avatar Read More
It’s often a little known fact that Heroku does by default , NOT serve the compressed version of your assets to the client browser. Often it’s all too easy to get lost in the magic that is Heroku slug compilation and the simplicity of a “git push heroku master” code deploy that we forget the Read More
Recently I found myself needing to find a way to determine what open and listening ports along with their associated running processes are currently active on a Windows machine using C#. Some extensive Googling returned pretty dismal results. Retrieving a list of open ports is simple. Retrieving a list of running processes is simple. A Read More
So, you’ve got a side project hosted with Heroku, you only have basic database requirements so the 10,000 row limited Postgres dev plan seems like a good choice and could possibly be a free alternative for a descent amount of time until you need to upgrade. Heck, at $35 a month per dyno, you need Read More