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Steve O’Hear is probably best known as a technology journalist, most recently at TechCrunch. He still occasionally blogs at last100. Until February 2012, he was CEO of expertise platform Beepl where he helped the company navigate its first VC round, along with seeing the product through development, private alpha and a high-profile public launch.
The post on Hacker News today about FireSheep , a Firefox addon which lets you trivially compromise the web application cookies/sessions of anyone on the same wireless network, gave me the much-needed impetus to upgrade my business to SSL security. For the last several years, I haven’t encrypted traffic between the server and the user. My theory was that my customer’s didn’t store anything security critical in their elementary school bingo card games, but the increasing amount of information available to the admin (me) plus a customer support story from this morning convinced me that compromise would be a Very Bad Thing. Implementing SSL in Rails was very painful and resulted in my site being down or unusable for a large portion of my customers for much of the day.
How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against FireSheep And Other Evils: MicroISV on a Shoestring
16 Nov 2009 At VinSol, we have been developing and deploying Rails applications for more than four years. During this period, we have identified some best practices that we prefer to follow while deploying rails application to production server. Changing nameservers will point the domain to the hosting server, and changing MX records will redirect incoming mails to the mail server.
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The new Firefox plug-in Firesheep is a tool that a public WiFi hotspot user can implement to snoop on the activities of other users of that hotspot. Mozilla says the flaw Firesheep exploits is not found in Firefox per se, but rather in the lax security standards to which many popular websites adhere. Firesheep will make it easier for malicious hackers to do their dirty work, but it also may motivate improvements. Avatars Improve CX: See How ... The CodeBaby solution engages and guides customers through critical action paths on your website.
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What is a float? When you float an element it becomes a block box. This box can then be shifted to the left or right on the current line. The markup options are "float: left", "float: right" or "float: none". A floated box is laid out according to the normal flow, then taken out of the flow and shifted to the left or right as far as possible. Content can flow down the right side of a left-floated box and down the left side of a right-floated box.Walter's Mystery Control Panel, by Telstar Logistics, on Flickr (Note: this post is a largely non-technical discussion about technical issues. It’s mainly written for the shoppers and sellers on Etsy, but I’m posting it on our engineering blog because I think engineers might be interested.) The other night we had an outage . Put frankly: outages suck. They suck for shoppers, and sellers, and they suck for us who work here at Etsy.
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This week email services company Return Path released its Q2 2008 Reputation Benchmark Report. The results highlight the fact that for many b2b marketers, deliverability may still be an issue. According to the report, emails sent from “legitimate” email servers averaged a delivery rate of 56%; 20% were rejected and 8% went into some type of filter. The rest—16%—were bounces. In other words, almost half of the time, email marketers’ messages aren’t getting through. There are ways to increase deliverability, though, according to George Bilbrey, Return Path’s general manager of delivery assurance.#1432 Error when emptying the cart - spree - railsdog
That's because the order's checkout is saved without the address validations and when the cart is cleared, the order is updated and as the checkout hasn't a shipping method, the validation fails.
The huge variety of addons is the main reason why I am a stubborn FireFox adopter. It is fun to watch how Google Chrome is quickly catching up in that respect. This week I am looking at a cool SEO extension for Google Chrome you will want to check out. The utility has a pretty unique name – SEO Site Tools and here’s the full round-up of its features ( mind it that all stats mentioned below can be expanded by clicking the link to the full report at each provider’s site ).
The SEO Tool That May Make You Switch to Google Chrome | SEO Facts
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One of my favourite parts of creating web apps is being able to make subtle changes to our sales pages and see the impact it has on our signups. With CareLogger being a side project, our time available for marketing is limited. We found conversion optimization to be a good way to spend 30 minutes once a week refining our pitch to customers. It also maximizes the amount of signups so we have access to more people to conduct customer development with. While this explained in very general terms a benefit of our product it didn’t hit on the real need that people had when they decided to keep a logbook to record their diabetes. Making your life easier is what almost every product promises.
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by Bryan May 11, 2010 in Interaction Design , Business and Startups , Notable comments When you're ready to launch your website, you'll want to give visitors the best user experience possible. Learning to evaluate a website effectively is part art and part science, but it's a skill that can be learned. To develop an eye for what works on a website and what doesn't, there are few simple techniques that help you critique your website in 30 seconds or less. Note where your eyes go first - Type in your URL, then close your eyes before the page loads. What's the first thing you see when you open your eyes?