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Hominid Gem Version 2.0

We’ve finally gotten around to doing some updating on the Ruby gem that we maintain called Homind. Hominid provides a wrapper for the Mailchimp API, allowing developers to easily integrate with Mailchimp’s email marketing service. Along with updating the gem, we have also moved it to Gemcutter since Gi… [ Read More ]

PIV Oregon Goes Live

Over the weekend, in addition to enjoying the great weather here at the beach, we launched a new website for Public Information Verification (PIV) Oregon. PIV provides background screening, pre-employment checks and other screening services. Some of the notable features of their new website are: Secure Screening Submi… [ Read More ]

Installing an EV SSL Certificate on Nginx

This is probably one of those things that everyone else knows, and I just didn’t show up for class that day. I had some trouble installing an Extended Validation SSL certificate on a clients site this weekend, mostly due to my own lack of knowledge. Generate the CSR The go… [ Read More ]

Real Estate on Rails (Working with RETS Data)

In the past, I have worked on a lot of real estate websites. After having taken a few year break from doing any realty-related web development, which was a welcome break, I have recently started working on another real estate site. My hope going into this was that working… [ Read More ]

Chuck Victory Goes Live!

We’ve just launched a new e-commerce website for Newport, Oregon photographic artist Chuck Victory. Chuck has a background in advertising and photography, and a serious interest in wine and art. While a simple website, there are a few features that we feel should be mentioned: Content Management – … [ Read More ]

Ruby Gem and Rails Plugin for Mailchimp

Recently, the limitations of the acts_as_mailchimp plugin that I threw together a while back have been staring me in the face. The more that I work with Mailchimp, and the more that they improve their API, the more I realized that it was time to do something about it. UPDATE: We are… [ Read More ]

Rails Form With Multiple Attributes

While developing a recent Ruby on Rails project, I ran into a case where the client needed to create a product that had multiple attributes. In this case, a single product was available in multiple sizes, and I wanted a single form that would allow a user to create as many sizes of the prod… [ Read More ]