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Twilio API and Rails 3 example

November 8, 2010

I recently created a simple Rails app based on the Twilio API (which is awesome) and the Twilio “appointment reminder” demo. Twilio allows developers to incorporate telephony into their web apps. You can use it to allow users to make phone calls or send SMS to your app or have your app call or SMS [...]

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What will Apple Announce Today?

October 20, 2010

Here are my predictions for today’s “Back to the Mac” event (Happening in a few hours): New version of Mac OSX = 10.7 Refresh of the Air laptop and addition of a smaller screen size. Prices lowered for both Upgrades to existing software suites such as iLife No mention of a Verizon iPhone (Calm down [...]

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Install Ruby on Rails on a PC – Done!

September 16, 2010

I previously wrote a post about accepting the challenge of installing Ruby on Rails on a PC only to temporarily give up because I had bought a Mac Mini which comes with Ruby on it. This is me picking up the challenge and beating it down! I am running Windows 7 and I just installed [...]

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SMBs should use Trada for SEM instead of slogging it out.

September 9, 2010

I just listened to an interview with Neil Robertson (@neilr1) from Trada.com and he is an extremely knowledgable and levelheaded CEO. His company Trada is essentially an expert-crowd-sourcing platform for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) that allows Small and Medium size Businesses (SMB) , or Large Corps., to tap into the expertise of multiple SEM gurus. [...]

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Facebook Places and the fight over location.

August 22, 2010

Facebook launched Facebook Places this past week as was expected by everyone. Over the course of the week I learned a lot of interesting tidbits about Facebook and the location based services niche as a whole. One interesting factoid is that when Facebook first launched on college campuses you could tell which set of dorms [...]

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Watch the Ignite talk I gave on August 4th in Charlotte!

August 19, 2010

5 minutes, 20 slides, auto-advance every 15 seconds. GO! I gave this talk at the first Ignite event held in Charlotte, NC on August 4th 2010 at the Neighborhood Theatre. My talk was on the topic of cell phone technology, where we’ve come from and where it is going. Ignite is a series of speedy [...]

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Upgrading the Droid to Froyo (Android 2.2) and its cool new features

August 18, 2010

This past weekend I upgraded my Motorola Droid to Android 2.2 (As of this writing the most recent version of Android), which goes by the name Froyo (short for Frozen Yogurt). Here are some of the cool new features that the upgrade included and one awesome one that it did not. Cool: Google Voice Actions [...]

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Add search and social to a WordPress Thesis theme header

August 9, 2010

I recently switched my theme from a plug-and-chug type theme to one of the white-labelish type themes called Thesis. It is very flexible and is almost like starting with a blank canvas that has a big set of paints and a crowd of tutors standing next to it. One of the big things I wanted [...]

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Draw on your computer from your iPad with AirSketch

July 28, 2010

I just tried out the AirSketch app on the iPad (Free version) and it is awesome. The app works very nicely with an extremely fast response, as you can see in the video below. It is compatible with HTML5 enabled browsers (I chose Google Chrome because that’s my browser of choice). In the paid version [...]

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Android and Ruby on Rails [Updated]

July 26, 2010

[UPDATE: my Android app source code is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/AndrewGertig/RubyDroid] For the past few days I have been ruminating about the ability to use an Android app to get and post data from and to a Ruby on Rails application. Since I just started learning Ruby on Rails a couple of days ago, [...]

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