Ben

SaaS Rails Kit now supports Authorize.net CIM


over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I’ve been keeping busy on a number of projects, like the recently-released NextProof, a site that provides easy e-commerce for professional photographers...

Content-based sites with paid memberships


over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
If you’ve ever wanted to create your own content-based web site that requires paid memberships, now you can do so easily with Ruby on Rails, Radiant,...

iPhone productivity


over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Since the iPhone 2.0 software came out, I’ve been really enjoying a number of third-party applications. Recently, however, that’s been taken to a whole...

Unexpected blogging


over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So as it turns out, Milorad Cavic has a blog. (If the name’s not ringing a bell, you probably haven’t been watching one of the most remarkable sporting...

Gnomedex 2008


over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I’m a little late in writing this, and I won’t do it the justice it really deserves, but I had to finally get out a blog post about how much I enjoyed...

Tutorial Aftermath


over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So, yesterday morning (0830 CET, 0230 EST) was my tutorial on resourceful plugins at Railsconf Europe. Other than flying through the material and running...

And… Session Aftermath


over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
My second session at Railsconf Europe ended a few hours ago, and marks the third time I’ve talked about Advanced RESTful Rails. This one went noticeably...

Easy Google Maps Mashups with Rails


over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Google has some great APIs for putting together mapping applications… but who wants to be bothered with having to read APIs? :) Now you can have a map...

A Useful Presentation Tool


over 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I’ve made a concerted effort to improve as a speaker over the last year and a half or so, and have relied heavily on some great websites and books in...

Populating more than one text box with Prototype’s Autocompleter


over 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
It took more than 30 seconds of digging to get this done, so I thought I’d share a quick-n-dirty way to use Prototype’s Autocompleter to update more...