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Quick Tip: Sending Google Chart links via email

~1 year ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Recently I had a client who wanted to deliver reports via email that contained a bunch of charts, and we decided on using Google Charts for the chart rendering...

BundleWatcher: Watching Your Gems

11 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
My weekend project this weekend was BundleWatcher, a tool that does just one thing: watches the gems in your Gemfile for updates. Once you upload your Gemfile...

Chef Tips

12 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
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Jekyll: Pagination, Archives, and Excerpts

12 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I recently converted this blog to jekyll — I figured since I had to move my slicehost slices elsewhere anyway, I might as well ditch wordpress and play...

Pricing Experiment Follow Up

~1 year ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey...

A Pricing Experiment

~1 year ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd...

CentOS 5.5 net install secret

9 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Today I needed to spin up a VM with CentOS 5.5. My preferred distro these days is Ubuntu, and I had to learn the CentOS dance to get an unsupported version...

Faker 1.0 released

8 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Earlier this week I released version 1.0 of the Faker gem. It's been about 4 years since the initial release of the gem, and the API has been fairly stable...

Improvements to Bundle Watcher

8 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I just released an update to Bundle Watcher this morning that may make it a little easier to get your Ruby gem updates tracked. Now you can specify a URL...

Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano

5 months ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get...