Author Archives: Richard

  • 27
  • Jun

Meet Flower, the Flowdock bot

Flowdock is a team collaboration and group chat service, similar to Campfire. Flowdock is also the group chat service of choice here at the R&D dept. To make it more fun and/or usable, we made this bot. Flower, the Flowdock … Continue reading →

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  • 11
  • Mar

Använd Open Graph-protokollet för att anpassa Facebook Likes

Vi lade nyligen till Open Graph-funktioner på Mynewsdesk, med vilka vi kan styra hur våra Facebook Likes ser ut på Facebook. Open Graph är ett protokoll ursprungligen framtaget av Facebook, och har inspirerats av Microformats och liknande protokoll. På hemsidan kan … Continue reading →

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  • 10
  • Feb

Lär dig mer om din site med Google Analytics Event Tracking

Google Analytics är fullt av möjligheter! Många funktioner tror jag aldrig används för ditt genomsnittliga projekt. Och det är synd, eftersom funktionerna är gratis, ger massor av bra information, och ofta väldigt enkla att utnyttja om man bara vet hur … Continue reading →

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  • 02
  • Jul

Simplest bit.ly API implementation possible?

To use an URL shortener in your project, I would strongly recommend bit.ly. It let you set a custom URL (name) and track traffic, clicks and conversations on micro blogs. But best of all, it should be super-fast and super-stable, … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails, Services Tagged , ,
  • 23
  • Jun

We are off to @media, London!

Tomorrow, we are off to @media, London. Hope to see you there! If you see someone looking like us – don’t hesitate to say hello! We imagine London to be something like this:

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  • 25
  • Mar

Committing to Rails Core

In our last post we talked about upgrading to Rails 2.3, and the issues we encountered. One bug we found was that multiple POST requests issued in a test didn’t reset the post parameters between requests. The patch Peter submitted … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Uncategorized
  • 17
  • Mar

New rake task for the Tranlsate plugin: Google Translate

We just pushed the latest addition to the Translate plugin which adds a new rake task: “rake translate:google FROM=sv TO=en”. This will translate all keys in sv.yaml using Google Translate into english and store them in en.yaml. This is a … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged , ,
  • 23
  • Jan

swedish_pluralize plugin: Swedish pluralization rules for Rails

For those of you looking for Swedish pluralization for Rails, I just refactored this module of ours into a plugin. You can find it on GitHub: http://github.com/newsdesk/swedish_pluralize/tree/master It’s extracted from the old swe_rails plugin by Ola Bini, which did a … Continue reading →

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  • 28
  • Nov

The “returning” method explained

This one you will find all over the Rails code. The “returning” trick is a really neat way to refactor ugly patterns, such as this one: object = [] object << “foo” if bar? object Into this: returning [] do … Continue reading →

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  • 28
  • Nov

A short introduction.

Welcome to the blog! I thought it would be appropriate to shortly present Newsdesk in a post before anything else. If you don’t know about us (and chances are small you do, unless you’re living in Sweden), we are a … Continue reading →

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