December 2009
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We Are Hiring!!!
Hey folks, to keep pace with our fast development, we are looking for a Software Architect Or Technical Manager. His/her objective is to design and ensure the compliance of our developments mainly based on Ruby on Rails technologies.
Above all, our preferred candidate will be flexible and highly motivated to work for a young and innovative startup, in one of the fastest growing industries aka...
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Rails 2+: Sanitize SQL string
Indeed it is sometimes useful to sanitize a query to avoid (most of) SQL injections.
Typically, this is the case with your favorite text search field on a website.
Obvisouly, you can’t do better than using the Rails standard way of querying, who automatically applies this mechanism. For instance:
MyModel.find(:all,:conditions => ['name LIKE ?','%'+params[:search]+'%'])
But what if you...
September 2009
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"Française des jeux" privatized?
The french ministry of economy thinks again of privatizing “La Française des jeux” (FDJ), according to Liberation.
This is interesting considering that France is currently, under the pressure of EU, opening its gambling market (actually sport betting and poker) over the Internet BUT ensuring the monopolistic position of the existing companies, namely FDJ and PMU.
Indeed, they...
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Facebook Connect and Rails: handling logout from...
Integrating an existing website with Facebook Connect using Facebooker is fairly easy. Several tutorial have been made; the best I found being:
Mike Mangino’s one (Mike is one of the Facebooker authors) Mike also released the book Pragmatic Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails at the marvelous Pragmatic Booksheld.
Integration with Restful_authentication by Made by Many
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August 2009
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Send your bet idea to...
We created a page on Backpack to record all crazy ideas of bets… and there are many :) You can easily add your bet idea by email:
Put the bet description in the subject of the email.
Send it to zukumu13@betcoffee.backpackit.com
That’s all!
All people sending bet ideas will be invited to the private BETA, starting fall september (09 of course).
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Cleaning in progress
Former office users currently taking their stuff.
We are cleaning:)
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First day in own offices, very excited!
Pictures will follow.