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Directed Edge - Blog - Our new digs

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Laquo; Directed Edge driving recommendations in Microsoft's MediaRoom CES demo. For the love of POSIX: A more useful way to not segfault from null pointers. March 31, 2010, 8:08 am by Scott Wheeler. The Directed Edge crew just moved into a new big office that we’re sharing with the other Berlin startups 12like. In our lovely home turf of Kreuzberg, one of the hot-spots for startups in Berlin and right on the Spree. Follow us on Twitter. Fan us on Facebook. E-Mail (will not be published) (required).

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Directed Edge - Blog - Support screenshots with Monosnap and S3

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Laquo; Terror in recommendations-ville. Support screenshots with Monosnap and S3. August 6, 2013, 6:35 pm by Scott Wheeler. I remember the first day that I discovered Skitch. Skitch let you take screenshots of an application or region on your screen and quickly post those online with a handy link that you could show to others. You could draw arrows or other simple annotations before flipping the switch to send the image to the interwebs. Skitch was eventually bought by Evernote. Monosnap itself is pretty...

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Directed Edge - Blog - Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource

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Laquo; The curious case of equidistant boxes, a CSS fail. What programming languages do our customers use? Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource. May 6, 2010, 10:32 am by Scott Wheeler. So I set off yesterday to rewrite our importer in C using Qt (and libcurl to grab the data). The result is a nice Qt-ified ActiveResource consumer that throws things into a collection of QVariant / hashes / lists. 8221; The answer was, fortunately, “Great! The data set is the set of products that we have in ou...

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Directed Edge - Blog - What programming languages do our customers use?

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Laquo; Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource. Using taps without running a taps server. What programming languages do our customers use? May 30, 2010, 1:12 am by Scott Wheeler. No huge shockers, but a few places where it’s interesting to compare perceptions to reality:. PHP, for better or worse, still dominates web development. Python’s much closer to Ruby in the usage we see, despite making less noise. Scala, despite being the new hotness has very little actual uptake. Follow us on Twitter.

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Directed Edge - Blog - The Arc Challenge in Ruby

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Laquo; Revamped Developer Site. Directed Edge Ruby Bindings Gemified. The Arc Challenge in Ruby. December 19, 2009, 11:10 pm by Scott Wheeler. There’s been a bit of buzz again in the last couple days about the Arc Challenge. In our corner of the interwebs, since a Haskell entry was thrown into the ring. Since we’re big Sinatra users (TweetRex, another internal demo and our just-about-to-come-out new account manager are all Sinatra), I thought I’d give it a whirl to see how it stacks up. There are helpers...

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Directed Edge - Blog - Using taps without running a taps server

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Laquo; What programming languages do our customers use? Shopify: Help Your Customers Discover Products and Grow Your Average Order Size. Using taps without running a taps server. June 5, 2010, 9:50 pm by Scott Wheeler. So, the Ruby world has a nifty thinger for syncing up databases over the interwebs. It’s called Taps. From the superheroes over at Heroku. It’s great — you just run a little Sinatra-based server and then give the database URLs and it handles all of the plumbing. SSH USER = '[sshuser]'.

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Directed Edge - Blog - Shopify app updates, new Ruby bindings beta, new web services features coming down the pipe

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Laquo; The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app, announcing acts as edgy. Bindings update that removes extra server round-trips. Shopify app updates, new Ruby bindings beta, new web services features coming down the pipe. September 18, 2012, 8:12 pm by Scott Wheeler. So, it’s been a gazillion years since we posted updates here, but there have been a number of things shaking out of the woodwork. First, we just did the biggest update to our Shopify app. New Ruby Bindings in Beta. Database =...

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Directed Edge - Blog - The curious case of equidistant boxes, a CSS fail

http://blog.directededge.com/2010/04/30/the-curious-case-of-equidistant-boxes-a-css-fail

Laquo; For the love of POSIX: A more useful way to not segfault from null pointers. Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource. The curious case of equidistant boxes, a CSS fail. April 30, 2010, 11:32 pm by Scott Wheeler. The above is not an exercise in geometric abstraction. It’s an attempt to do something seemingly simple, but to the best of my knowledge, impossible in CSS. The challenge is this:. Given a container, fill the container with. So, let’s step through the options:. Ul li {. Table cla...

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Directed Edge - Blog - The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app, announcing acts_as_edgy

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Laquo; Google Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox. Shopify app updates, new Ruby bindings beta, new web services features coming down the pipe. The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app, announcing acts as edgy. March 15, 2011, 11:17 am by Scott Wheeler. So, there are two things I want to talk about. The first is how our new beta hotness,. Just made it super easy to add Directed Edge recommendations to Rails 2 apps. How easy? Recommendations the Easy Way. Acts as edgy (. Like, Product ).

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Directed Edge - Blog - For the love of POSIX: A more useful way to not segfault from null pointers

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Laquo; Our new digs. The curious case of equidistant boxes, a CSS fail. For the love of POSIX: A more useful way to not segfault from null pointers. March 31, 2010, 1:05 pm by Scott Wheeler. There’s a post. Making the rounds on Hacker News. About actually mapping the address 0 to make it possible to not crash when dereferencing a null pointer. The thing is, POSIX. Provides a more useful mechanism for recovering from null pointer dereferences using signal handlers. Let’s look at some code:. Event id ).