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Re: How do I attach a card to my account? - Checkout & Billing - Namecheap

Jonathan Crawford — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:19:50 -0000

Same thing here.

Re: Ruby on Rails: Scaling Your App for Rapid Growth

Jonathan Crawford — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:03:37 -0000

Rad stuff by my boy, @sco!

And FYI: We're hiring a couple Ruby on Rails dudes over a the recently-funded Storenvy. :)

More info: http://www.storenvy.com/jobs

Re: Multi Party Video Calling

Jonathan Crawford — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:51:48 -0000

I completely see your point, David. As you said, you are providing value, so you should absolutely be compensated for this. But I just don't think that matters to 2010 Internet consumers.

We live in a world where there IS such a thing as a "free lunch" and it's only going to get worse. Free email, free IM, free web hosting, free conference calling, etc. Consumers are being trained to expect free alternatives to almost everything on the web.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for the "gimme free stuff" mindset. I'm just saying that business owners need to be aware of the shifting economics of the digital era and perhaps come up with innovate revenue models that take advantage the new economics of the web instead of trying to resist it. Instead of trying to make consumers think about value and price the we do, it's usually easier and more beneficial to start thinking about it the way our customers do. In a lot of cases resisting freemium is just postponing the inevitable. Unfortunately, it will eventually mean "evolve or die". :)

Re: Dynamically set a domain for a Rails asset host

Jonathan Crawford — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:40:25 -0000

I really wouldn't recommend implementing this. From what I know, the randomized solution above will force assets to be downloaded 3+ times (once for each server) as a user cruises through your website. It will essentially render browser caching useless.

Example:
We're linking to logo.png in the header.
Page 1: http://icarus.mycoolsite.co...
Page 2: http://zeus.mycoolsite.com/...
Page 3: http://aphrodite.mycoolsite...

Your browser will interpret this as 3 different files and download it once at Page 1 and again on Page 2 and again on Page 3. Imagine doing that with every asset on a page. This is way worse than having a single asset host.

The real solution would be to conceive of a way to tie specific assets to specific hosts by filename or id or something.

Re: EXCLUSIVE: PayPal Launches a Cryptic Developer Challenge

Jonathan Crawford — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:34:05 -0000

Anyone want to team up to solve this? I've been working on it quite a bit, but I'm stuck. I can set up a Campfire chatroom or set up an IRC channel.

http://www.twitter.com/NewM...

Re: [ANN] amazon-fps-ruby 1.0.0 Released

Jonathan Crawford — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:32:47 -0000

Hey Josh-

I found you on the registry for KC StartupWeekend. I wanted to point out this FPS gem that I've done some work on called Remit. I think it's currently the furthest along in terms of stability. http://github.com/tylerhunt...

My app is built on top of it -- http://www.storenvy.com.

See you this weekend, I assume!

Jon Crawford

Re: GiraffeSoft | Welcome to smarter web app development.

Jonathan Crawford — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:17:12 -0000

Hey guy! Thanks for the great plugin!

I was wondering if you'd considered engineering a more advanced timeline_event publishing mechanism. On my app, a user might create several similar timeline events in a day. The timeline then would be be pretty boring "Joe favorited this time." Joe favorited this time."

It would be great to easily group all the timeline events by event_type with a certain period of time as the threshold. "Joe favorited 6 items this week."

What do you think?