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Getting started with PayPal in minutes Getting started with PayPal in minutes

We've supported PayPal for a while now. When you first create your account with us, we enable our OWN PayPal account for you to get started quickly. (more…)

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AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk” AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk”

We’ve been building Single Page Apps” (SPAs) with AngularJS over the last few months and have been blown away with what it enables us to achieve. Our front-end code was a stinking pile of jQuery DOM manipulation, ad-hoc data attributes,...

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The Ruby Hackathon Roundup The Ruby Hackathon Roundup

48 Hours. 4 Coders. 1 Awesome Web-app. Last month we hosted a Ruby Hackathon over the weekend. We had a truckload of applications from college students, working professionals, college professors (!), and one application from Gujarat! We weren’t geared to host such...

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An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified! An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified!

lot of people have asked me whether demoing at Unpluggd last year was useful for Vacation Labs. As a B2B product in the travel space I didn't expect potential customers to be at the event. (more…)

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Installing mysql2 gem on Mac OSX Installing mysql2 gem on Mac OSX

Just spent 20 mins trying to install the mysql2 gem on my Mac OSX dev machine. Here’s the solution for anyone else who’s stuck with the same problem. (more…)

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HTML5 as a replacement for Flash HTML5 as a replacement for Flash

We needed to build a short animation, for a client’s website, which explained a rather complex concept within 60 seconds to a “lay audience” [1] (more…)

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Automated backups in under 30mins Automated backups in under 30mins

Once you’ve gotten your application into production, do not procrastinate in setting up automated backups for important data. You’ll be thanking yourself the day your cloud-server instance dies on you. Or after a botched-up DB migration job. Or probably an...