The past few years have been a complete roller-coaster ride! With each passing year – I was getting closer to my ultimate objective. 2007 – This was the time when SammyTammy, Sandy and I teamed up to kickstart our entrepreneurial stint with ApnaBill.com 2008 – We brought ApnaBill.com into existence. Jan 28 was when we hit the 400 mark for [...]
I recently had to add a CSS header to a lot of AdoMado Apps. This is how I managed it… $ for file in `find ./ | grep html` > do > sed -i ‘s/original word/new word/’ $file > done
Ever wondered how can you have something like this <% some_helper do %> Some text here <% end %> Well, here how it is… def some_helper(&block) content = capture(&block) concat(“this comes before the block”, block.binding) concat(content, block.binding) # adds “Some text here” to the view concat(“this comes after the block”, block.binding) end Neat! Isn’t it
The offers that we run at AdoMado.com are of three basic types – Exclusive offers, Deal A Day aggregation and several more interesting offers sponsored by our partners. A few days back, I woke up to a terrific morning, only to notice that my inbox had several “downtime” alerts. I quickly checked and realized that [...]
Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers (@GoogleTechTalks) I think I never cared about these – but the way David Baron from Mozilla describes these, I think I will now. The points he was making started seeming so crucial that I jotted them down as if taking notes – something I never [...]
If you have ever experienced this… …you know how painful it is to debug and rectify. This error was so common that Microsoft created a knowledge base (KB927917) article for this. It even has a dedicated explanation at the IE Blog. The error basically is – “HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container [...]
At AdoMado, we are always trying to improve the skewed gender ration we have amongst our user base. As part of the same endeavor, we have introduced a special set of coupons available for redemption while keeping in mind the needs of the ladies. This includes 5 sections: AdoMado Offers Apparel (2 coupons) Bakery and [...]