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Using the Amazon ECS Gem In Your Rails App

Amazon.com offers a tremendous amount of web services to developers looking to display their products. They benefit from this because developers make all sorts of cool apps for browsing Amazon. For example, nifty 3D Flash experience CoolIris (formerly known as ‘PicLens’) added Amazon functionality to their product. It’s a win-win for developers and Amazon because it drives traffic to the site while paying developers referral fees. Read the rest of this entry »

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Saving State: What To Do When Users Leave

In this era of rich JavaScript applications, so much
focus is given to the features of the application that one
crucial element is often overlooked: What happens when the
user leaves the page? We take it for granted that pages
will look the same when we leave and return, but a new
question merges for sites using rich JavaScript
interaction: If the user leaves and returns to the page,
will the application state be preserved? Read the rest of this entry »

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