Web Services 5

Tracking your AWS costs

Write yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report with your AWS costs broken down more granularly than AWS’ monthly invoice. Read more »

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists remain an effective way for groups to communicate. We’ll explore how to implement them in your Rails application to improve its overall user-experience. Read more »

Finding Your Most Active Users

Google Analytics is normally used to track a website’s visitors and pageviews, but it can also track specific users, which can be invaluable information as you develop your customer base. Who is the most active? What are they using? Whose usage is fading? Read more »

Browsing Files & Directories in S3

Amazon’s S3 makes storing files easy but viewing directories isn’t intuitive. Let me explain how you can emulate a file structure using Plain-Old-Ruby-Objects. Read more »

The Tricky World of Using Web APIs archived

When your application interacts with the web a lot can go wrong. Working with Ruby on Rails over the last five years, I’ve seen a lot of them first hand, and with this article I hope to share some of that experience and help you write more reliable, efficient and friendly code. Read more »