Jim_Neath

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Ruby Hacker & Developer behind purifyapp.com
  1. Background: I noticed that my better half spent a lot of time searching for the same thing (at the time it was maternity dresses) across a whole load of women's fashion stores online. So I built her a site that lets her…

  2. I'm a coder who builds websites that I think are awesome and useful. The problem I have is getting people to my apps and conveying how useful they are to the general public. How can I get better at this? Are there any…

  3. Nginx 1.0.0 is out (nginx.org)
  4. idle.fm is an app that looks at the music you have "liked" on Facebook, then builds a playlist on Spotify based on recommendations. I built it in the few hours I have free during the last couple of weeks. There's still…

  5. I'm about to embark on designing an API for my startup. Are there any guidelines available online regarding things like: - Which response codes should be returned - How errors should be handled - How the xml/json should…

  6. The New Ruby Ecosystem (ducktypo.blogspot.com)
  7. We're planning on launching our service this week, so I'd like to bone up on how to use Google Analytics efficiently. Currently, all I have setup is standard page tracking, and this is about the limit of my knowledge at…

  8. Tunes AM is a quick project I knocked up over the weekend that allows you to post links to music to your facebook account. I'm planning to expand it to allow you to signup via Twitter as well. Any criticism is always…

  9. I'm planning to knock up a weekend project but before I do I need to know what, if any, legal issues there are with serving 30 second song samples from a website (streaming from S3). I've had a look online but I've…

  10. Is there an API that will provide a sample of a song given the artist and song title? I thought it would be possible to get from Amazon, but I've not been able to find anything related yet.

  11. I'm looking for an API that gives me access to artist/album/song details and preferably images. Te ability to extract artist/album/song names from strings of text would be a bonus. I'm currently investigating the…

  12. Entrepreneurism: The Age Gap (entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)