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What programming languages do our customers use?
No huge shockers, but a few places where it’s interesting to compare perceptions to reality: PHP, for better or worse, still dominates web development. Python’s much closer to Ruby in the usage we...
View ArticleUsing taps without running a taps server
So, the Ruby world has a nifty thinger for syncing up databases over the interwebs. It’s called Taps, from the superheroes over at Heroku. It’s great — you just run a little Sinatra-based server and...
View ArticleShopify: Help Your Customers Discover Products and Grow Your Average Order Size
From over at the Shopify blog: Eric Houtkooper of www.PupLife.com helps customers find and discover other products they may want. He has increased his customers’ average order size by recommending...
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Directed Edge delivering 33% of revenue for The Market Quarter
Jonathan Briggs, who runs The Market Quarter wrote a few months back on getting up and going with our Shopify app for recommendations. He reported back today after analyzing the first few months of...
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What’s happening?
So, the blog has been a bit silent of late, mostly because there’s been a lot of incremental stuff that’s been happening. We shout that stuff out over at Twitter and Facebook, but we’ll pull some of...
View ArticleGoogle Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox
There’s been much ado about the problem of spam and Google of late. Being something of a search weenie, as my eyelids were feeling heavy today I found myself mulling over the problem, “How would one...
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The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app, announcing...
So, there are two things I want to talk about. The first is how our new beta hotness, acts_as_edgy, just made it super easy to add Directed Edge recommendations to Rails 2 apps. How easy? One line...
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Shopify app updates, new Ruby bindings beta, new web services features coming...
Shopify app updates So, it’s been a gazillion years since we posted updates here, but there have been a number of things shaking out of the woodwork. First, we just did the biggest update to our...
View ArticleBindings update that removes extra server round-trips
So, we noticed recently that our Java and Python bindings were doing an extra round-trip to our servers for every request. We’ve just done updates to each of them that removes this. Per the HTTP spec,...
View ArticleTerror in recommendations-ville
Every startup seems to have one of those technical meltdown stories. Up until today, our worst had been back in 2009 when we were still in beta, and it was more embarassing than critical. (Lesson...
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Support screenshots with Monosnap and S3
I remember the first day that I discovered Skitch. Skitch let you take screenshots of an application or region on your screen and quickly post those online with a handy link that you could show to...
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