Four days before the turkey was served up at Christmas last year, we threw the switch on the biggest project we’ve ever done at globaldev. We launched our new mobile counterpart to our desktop application for nearly 200 of our biggest sites.
We’ve released a new gem for all your postal code formatting and validation needs. GoingPostal will validate and correctly format postal codes from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and can be used as either a model mixin or as a namespaced collection of static methods.
As with any decently large Internet-business, we do a lot of background processing of various different tasks: everything from email rendering, statistics processing, cache flushing and more. Over the last six months we’ve slowly been transitioning a lot of those tasks to a new more efficient architecture using with RabbitMQ as the queue server, and Ruby-based workers to process the actual jobs.
Web based API’s come in all shapes and sizes, not all of them conform to RESTful conventions: incorrect response codes, different response formats, odd resource name spacing, and problematic transport layers plague many of the API’s we as developers have to deal with.
We manage a number of sites with secure content. Installing SSL certificates and keys on multiple servers becomes a time consuming annoyance.
To ease this pain we’ve made use of a SSL decryption module added into our load balancers. Using …
