Best practices on how to run a Facebook page
August 17th, 2010 // 7:51 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
I would like to share with you two Facebook pages that I find fabulous and that are good examples of how to grow a loyal following in a Facebook page without the budget of RedBull or Starbucks. Case study 1: Lingopal The first is the Facebook page of Lingopal, an iphone travel app. The application [...]
Category : Online experiments &Startup tips and tricks
How to insert the new Tweet button in your ruby on rails application
August 13th, 2010 // 7:44 am @ Aymeric // No Comments
Twitter has just released their new Tweet button and I wanted to use it in the freelance marketplace I am developing (TaskArmy.com). It took me literally 5 minutes thanks to the Twitter Button gem from Intridea. Although the gem worked perfectly locally, I had some issues when I deployed it on Heroku. 1. Install the [...]
Category : Programming tips and tricks
How to develop live search textbox in Ruby on Rails
August 6th, 2010 // 7:53 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
Ruby on Rails doesn’t stop to amaze me. This article will show you how I got live search working on my freelance marketplace TaskArmy (if you enter ‘wordpress’ in the big textbox, you should see the search results appear automatically) in 20 minutes. The View (tasks/index.html.erb) <form id="live-search-form" method="get" action="<%= search_path %>"> <input id="big-search-box" name="q" [...]
Category : Programming tips and tricks
Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services
August 6th, 2010 // 7:02 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
Note: I tailored this message around ‘Facebook Consulting Australia’ to help people find me in Google. I noticed a trend this year. More and more businesses are jumping on the Facebook marketing wagon. Although last year Facebook marketing was already hot in the news, ‘mainstream’ businesses are now asking for some Facebook consulting. Just this [...]
Category : General
How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby on rails
July 30th, 2010 // 2:59 am @ Aymeric // 2 Comments
I realized today that my current configuration of taskarmy.com and www.taskarmy.com implied that Google considered them as two different domain names. This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues). So I decided to redirect 301 all the pages coming from www to my root domain taskarmy.com. (By the way, why [...]
Category : Programming tips and tricks
Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip
July 25th, 2010 // 3:13 am @ Aymeric // No Comments
I can’t believe 5 years have passed already, time goes fast and seems to be accelerating. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip. If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at [...]
Category : General
My talk at BarCamp Auckland
July 19th, 2010 // 1:53 am @ Aymeric // 7 Comments
On Friday while doing some Facebook consulting, I was offered/pushed to do a presentation the next day at BarCamp 4. I am posting the slides here for your convenience: UPDATE: That’s pretty cool, my slides got featured on the homepage of SlideShare! Tips from a retired Facebook app developer View more presentations from Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli. [...]
Category : Entrepreneurship & Startups &Startup tips and tricks
Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups
July 2nd, 2010 // 8:05 am @ Aymeric // One Comment
Running a lean startup? You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Survey and Feedback tools Although people tend to think of Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo when I mention Survey, I actually think that Google Forms is very good already, and it is free. Google Forms [...]
Category : Entrepreneurship & Startups &Startup tips and tricks
How to send an email using Postmark in a C# application
July 2nd, 2010 // 7:14 am @ Aymeric // No Comments
Postmark is a service that ensures the email you send from your application reaches your recipient and not its Spam folder (which will likely happen if you use your own SMTP server or Google’s one). Postmark gives you 1000 emails for free, which allows you to give a try risk-free. So how do you send [...]
Category : Programming tips and tricks
How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes
July 1st, 2010 // 2:10 pm @ Aymeric // 2 Comments
To improve the ranking of my website TaskArmy.com in Google, I decided to provide my users with a widget they can add to their blogs or websites. I will show in this article how I did it in 30 minutes using Ruby on Rails (hopefully you will be able to do it in less than [...]
Category : Programming tips and tricks
