Breaking new ground the Vinova entrepreneurs want to help bring the art.tech world to people in Singapore, Asia and the world. Artchu is an online art site where anyone, literally anyone, can crowdsource emerging and talented artists (from anywhere around the world) to produce original art to exactly fit a person’s need, room, wall or lifestyle.
“Art should make you happy and productive, so we are giving people the ability to get the art they want, from talented artists, and exactly as they want it. It’s so simple, and everyone who’s tried it has had a great experience and gotten a perfect piece of original art for a fantastic price. And that makes them very happy” – said Mike, Artchu co-founder.
You can check out Artchu here: http://artchu.com
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Guys, Ruby on Rails 3.1 has just been released! Feel really good after a long long wait (3 Months since RailsConf).
Highlights in Rails 3.1:
- Streaming
- Reversible Migrations
- Assets Pipeline
- jQuery as the default JavaScript library
ruby on rails is love
Read the rest of this entry…
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Yay, new site launched! myAppalogues – App-based electronic catalogues. You can also find the iPhone/iPad app available on Apple Store too
myAppalogues - App-based catalogues
In their words:
Every day we see merchants willing to spend thousands of dollars on tradeshows, magazine / print, and website campaigns. And then they end up selling at a discount anyway as it’s such a crowded market. We’re not telling merchants what to do, and there are some benefits to tradeshows obviously, but if the world is going to mobile (which it is) and you can easily afford to give it a try (which now you can) then we’re finding that people will do that.”
myApp4KIDS is free to download and use and costs a small monthly fee per advertisement. There are no commissions on sales. Merchants can register at www.myappalogues.com and use the Ad Wizard to easily create instant mobile promotions for their products.
A few screenshots of the app:
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Guys, let’s join us at RedDotRubyConf – South East Asia’s First Ruby & Rails Conference 2011. There will be renowned international speakers, local practitioners, workshops about Ruby and Rails. List of speakers include:
- Matz – Founder of the Ruby Language
- Dave Thomas – Author of “the pickaxe book” and an original Pragmatic
- Tom Preston-Werner – Cofounder of Github.
- Gregg Pollack – a Hollywood director trapped in the body of a software developer
- Ian McFarland – VP Technology & Principal at Pivotal Labs
- Mikel Lindsaar – Founder of rubyx and a Rails commit team member
Alex, co-founder of Vivova, will proudly be one of the presenters at this big and long-awaited event of South East Asia. He will have an in-depth presentation about MongoDB (NoSQL in general) and Scaling Web Apps.
If you are interested in these topics, please come to the conference on 23/04/2011 – 15:30pm to join his presentation: “Benefits of using MongoDB: Reduce Complexity & Adapt to Changes”
See you soon !
RedDotRubyConf - South East Asia’s First Ruby & Rails Conference
Product.io is a free product reviews and Q&A site. Ask support questions about a product you own, or research a product you might want to buy. Read other people’s experiences, or sign in through facebook or twitter to filter product reviews by your social network.
Why do you care?
When you’re about to buy a new LCD TV, where do you turn for help? Maybe you call a friend, email somebody that you know who’s good with electronics. Then, you probably search on google. But who do you turn to for advice? That’s where we come in. We rank reviews on the internet and encourage you to ask your friends what they think about products before you buy them. We make researching and purchasing products easier and more efficient.
Product.io is a startup project of Anideo Singapore (in the collaboration with Vinova team) – Anideo develops innovative web technologies as both stand-alone web applications and integrated services on popular social networking platforms. Their main focus is the monetization of social networks, through employing the social networking framework and its corresponding social graph to improve and enhance e-commerce. Their key products will seek to apply innovative web principles to the following industries: online & offline retail commerce, news & media, entertainment, information technology & systems, marketing, and advertising.
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Display current url without base url
<%= request.request_uri %> / <%= request.path%>
eg: /vinova/development/web_and_iphone_apps
Display previous url with base url
<%= request.referer %>
eg: http://www.vinova.sg/development/web_and_iphone_apps
Display base url
<%= request.env['HTTP_HOST']%>
eg: www.vinova.sg
Display protocol
<%= request.env['SERVER_PROTOCOL']%>
eg: HTTP/1.1
Full url
<%= request.url%>
eg: http://www.vinova.sg/development/web_and_iphone_apps
Display how many parameters found in current url
<%= request.query_parameters.size %>
url eg: www.vinova.sg/index.html?key=3&d=4
answer: 2 => (2 parameters)
Display controller name from current url
<%= request.path_parameters['controller'] %>
eg: contents
Display action name from current url
<%= request.path_parameters['action'] %>
eg: login
Everything inside a request
<%= request.inspect%>
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New website launched! Yayyy!!
Surplus chemical raw materials take up space, lock up capital and cost a bomb to dispose properly.
Offstock.com – an integrated solution that utilizes the both the Internet and a trained sales and logistics team – to help you buy or sell surplus. Let’s save our mother earth!
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Using Cumcumber + Capybara to run automated testing is a TRENDY now. But you might have trouble finding a way to assert a javascript alert, for e.g. a link created by the link_to … :confirm => “Are you sure?” and similar.
Don’t worry, here is a work around to confirm Javascript alert and dialog in your Capybara tests, simply override alert and confirm methods:
Given /^I will confirm on next step$/ do
begin
evaluate_script(“window.alert = function(msg) { return true; }”)
evaluate_script(“window.confirm = function(msg) { return true; }”)
rescue Capybara::NotSupportedByDriverError
end
end
Rescue here is added in case, you run want to run your tests without javascript (e.g. default capybara driver). If you run feature without javascript simply nothing will happen.
Moreover, using this technique you can simulate moving mouse over some elements. It is useful, when you have links that appears when certain div is under the mouse cursor.
Then /^I move mouse over “([^\"]*)”$/ do |label|
begin
Capybara.current_session.driver.browser.execute_script(“$(‘#{label}’).mouseover();”)
rescue Capybara::NotSupportedByDriverError
end
end
That’s it. Happy testing !
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