In a Ruby on Rails application I’m developing, client asked me to add a feature that allows users to download a full picture gallery as a single zip file. Quite obviously, I decided to take advantage of rubyzip gem to create the compressed archive to download. But my idea was to create the zip on the fly, [...]

We have new projects in mind. Those who follow us will certainly have noticed that we made a complete redesign of our website. This is only the most “visible” aspect of a maturation process that led us to establish fixed points on what we do and especially how we want to do: develop software and web [...]

With the imminent release of version 4.0 of the. NET framework and VisualStudio 2010, Microsoft will introduce a new language that can fully use all the features of the .NET framework. This language is called F#. Unlike the C# programming language, which is an imperative programming language, F# is a functional programming language, based on .NET [...]

Previous posts: Building a Web 2.0 startup: Part 1 – idea and analysis of competitors Building a web 2.0 startup: Introduction In this second post about the startup of a web application we will discuss how to analyze our first idea. In the previous post we have discussed about possible competitors and we have understood how our idea can [...]

Previous posts: Building a web 2.0 startup: Introduction One of the fundamental aspects for the start of a startup, especially in the web world, is to have a good initial idea. Often you think you have found the right idea for a successful application, but things then prove otherwise. Happened to us too many times to wake up any [...]