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Exporting from a SaaS application

almost 3 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Recently I had a request from a customer of my applicant tracking system application to do an export of all her data. This was one of those features that...

Progressive Caching

almost 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So I’ve been giving a new talk lately, titled Page Caching Resurrected. I brought it out for the first time at Developer Day in Durham, and just last...

Ben Goes to Railsconf

almost 3 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Las Vegas, get ready! After a brief detour to Atlanta to drop off Lacie and the baby, I’ll be flying to Vegas on Sunday for a week of Railsconf. I’m...

Railsconf 2009

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
After six hours in the Las Vegas airport, five on the flight to Atlanta, seven driving back home to Durham, and one and a half spent mowing our lawn (which...

Rails plugin directory revamp

over 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
A lot has happened to the world of Ruby on Rails since the Rails plugin directory first launched back in 2005, and I have finally caught up. :) Of course...

RubyNation: Day One

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
This’ll be a bit shorter than some of my previous conference wrapups — I’m pretty tired at the moment, but I wanted to get down some thoughts relatively...

Travel/Speaking Update

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Just a quick note to update people on my soon-to-be whereabouts. June As far as I know, I’m done with conferences and events for this month - which is...

Fun with instance_eval

over 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Recently someone asked for a combination discount at the RailsKits store—he wanted to purchase both the SaaS Rails Kit and the Helpdesk Rails Kit to get...

Developer Day Boston!

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I’ve talked to various people about this lately, but just to make it official here: Developer Day is coming to Boston on August 15th. We’re still finalizing...

Top Five

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I’ve been both a productivity pr0n consumer and a procrastinator for quite some time now - I discovered GTD back in my days at Nextel (so at least five...