Stefano Bernardi

Holy Philanthropy! Andreessen Horowitz GPs Pledge to Give Half of Their Income to Charity | PandoDaily

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:03:15 +0200

Holy Philanthropy! Andreessen Horowitz GPs Pledge to Give Half of Their Income to Charity | PandoDaily:

Wow.

French City Implements Virtual Currency to Avoid Financial Ruin

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:56:40 +0200

French City Implements Virtual Currency to Avoid Financial Ruin:

French City Implements Virtual Currency to Avoid Financial Ruin - rock on Nantes.

You can play tetris in the favicon. The world is finally complete. http://favris.info/

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:32:28 +0200

You can play tetris in the favicon. The world is finally complete.

http://favris.info/

Virtual Goods Monetization Meetup - May 9th

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:03:00 +0200

Virtual Goods Monetization Meetup - May 9th:

We just announced our next Betable meetup for May 9th.

We’re going to have 3 extremely interesting talks on virtual goods and virtual currencies monetization.

YuChiang Cheng, Founder of WGT - “Leveraging Branded Virtual Goods”
Josh Burns, Associate Director, Products at 6Waves - “Tactics for Maximizing Your Virtual Goods Revenue”
Max Skibinsky, Founder of Hive7 (Sold to Playdom) - “The Color of Money”

You should definitely join us if you’re interested in game monetization, virtual currencies, food and beer!
For RSVP and more info: http://www.meetup.com/SFGameMonetization/events/61134132/

NERO (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:52:20 +0200

NERO (Taken with instagram)

BBQ Lunch in the office #betablerocks #joinus #code4food (Taken...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:53:40 +0200

BBQ Lunch in the office #betablerocks #joinus #code4food (Taken with instagram)

New @betable tshirts! (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:43:54 +0100

New @betable tshirts! (Taken with instagram)

The Geode

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:03:20 +0100

The Geode:

I hate it when people are smarter than me.
Take all my money now.

Hilarious :)

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:21:12 +0100

Hilarious :)

Download any SoundCloud song

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:06:55 +0100

Download any SoundCloud song:

pretty sweet bookmarklet that lets you download any song on Soundcloud. They will probably block this pretty soon.

How to send mail asynchronously with Sorcery and Delayed Job in Rails 3

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:39:54 +0100

I’m developing a Rails 3.2 app and being fed up with devise, I decided I’d be switching to the awesome sorcery gem for user authentication. Sorcery has a ton of features while staying minimal (you still have to write all your models, controllers and views) and that is just what I need. Those devise controllers where driving me mad.

Anyways, after implementing it and testing the app, I noticed that every transaction was taking forever (5000-1000ms). That is because of the email delivery which is enclosed in a transaction (I have emails for activation, confirmation, reseting password and inviting other users).

The solution is obviously to handle asynchronously the email sending with a queue and workers. I decided to go with Delayed Job to keep everything on Active Record (Redis and the Resque gem rock quite a lot too).

To use Delayed Job you usually have to call:

Object.delay.method(args)

You can also call

handle_asynchronously :method_name

at the end of your controllers.

This is all very cool, but with Rails 3 mailers DJ breaks and usually can’t pick up parameters when using the handle_asynchronously method. Bummer.

With Sorcery, the code to send the emails is actually in the gem so the only solution is to override the gem’s methods to send the emails.

There are two ways to do that:

Override the generic_send_mail method
Override the single email sending methods

I went for option number 2 for the activation emails. In my user model:

def send_activation_needed_email!

UserMailer.delay.activation_needed_email(self.id)

end

def send_activation_success_email!

UserMailer.delay.activation_success_email(self.id)

end

This works fine but is not a viable approach for the password reset email, since its method initializes a bunch of stuff you shouldn’t mess with.

Then I realized that I overlooked the most clever way, and the simplest one.:

Edit your config/initializers/sorcery.rb file with the following:

config.user_config do |user|

user.user_activation_mailer = YourMailerName.delay

user.reset_password_mailer = YourMailerName.delay

end

In this way we make sure that every email is sent to the delay method via DJ, and we don’t have to worry about overriding Sorcery methods.
The simplest solution is always right under our eyes, yet still difficult to see.

Hope this helps.

Node.js on Rails

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:39:41 +0100

Node.js on Rails

A great idea executed awesomely - Newsle

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:11:06 +0100

When I see certain products I think that making a startup is not that hard at all. Newsle makes it look really easy. Smart idea + great execution. How hard can it be, right?

Wrong. Then I start watching all the hard decisions that have been made in order for the product to be where it is now and I go: “wow”.

The idea is a very smart one: keep track of news that mention your friends. With the clutter and noise on Facebook and Twitter, this makes sure that you see the real news about each of your contacts so you can know what they’re up to, congratulate them or just place it in the back of your head for future reference.

The execution is awesome. In one month a lot has changed and now the product looks pretty sweet.

They have a challenging time ahead, but kudos to them for being on the right track and solving a problem.

This.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:07:44 +0100

This.

ACE - Sinatra for Node

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:14:48 +0100

ACE - Sinatra for Node:

AWESOME.

The Joy of Sinatra

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0100

Sunday morning I woke up with a weird API idea, and decided to spend the morning building it.

I unconsciously headed to http://www.sinatrarb.com and 20 minutes later I had a complete API returning awesome JSON and performing a few operations in the backend.

It’s just amazing what you can achieve with Sinatra and the power of Rubygems:

The joy is in the simplicity, control, flexibility and power that Sinatra gives you, particularly coming from Rails where all the really cool stuff happens in the backend without you ever knowing nor understanding it. Next step: plug in MongoDB, which stores all your data in JSON anyways. Next next step: get to understand Node.js and Express.js

Thanks to our #awesomeceo (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:05:14 +0100

Thanks to our #awesomeceo (Taken with instagram)

ISS 4000 Members. Yeah.

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:38:48 +0100

ISS 4000 Members. Yeah.

‘Nduja and Champagne (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:18:33 +0100

‘Nduja and Champagne (Taken with instagram)

Video

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:22:00 +0100