I recently had to write and deploy a custom Rails app for a customer. When it was time for me to install the dedicated server, I looked for which Ruby version to install. I naturally went for the latest stable version of Ruby: 1.8.5. Unfortunalety I quickly ran through serious trouble with this version and […]

It’s funny. Just a while after I was wondering what to do next with BigNumbr, I heard about Swivel, a service for sharing and playing with data.

Actually, we were also thinking about creating the same kind of service out of BigNumbr data: building data sets and creating graphics out of it. The first step […]