Michael Bleigh

Facebook Rails Integration with OAuth2

This is simply awesome.  Facebook launches a new API using OAuth2, making it much easier to integrate with Facebook from your Rails app, and Michael Bleigh quickly churns out a new oauth2 gem.

TweetStream: Use the Twitter Streaming API from Ruby

twitter-stream.png A couple of weeks ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter unveiled a beta "streaming API." Twitter's nature means they get hammered with polling requests so they've begun to experiment with the concept of streaming relevant data within a single H

Handling AJAX errors and displaying friendly error messages to users

AJAX is cool. Except that when it does not work. When an AJAX operation goes wrong then more often than not user continues to see the spinner spinning and no feed back is provided to the user that something has gone wrong.

RailsConf 2009 Speaker Interviews

RailsConf program chair Chad Fowler is conducting a series of speaker interviews in the run-up to the event, which is happening very soon, May 4-7 in Las Vegas. Mosey on over to ChadFowler.com to read more about Neal Ford and Paul Gross of ThoughtWorks, Michael Bleigh, who is Creative Director and Open-Source Activist at Intridea, JRuby and Rubinius leaders Charlie Nutter and Evan Phoenix, as well as Chad’s musing on Rails, Ruby, and open source.

RailsConf interviews, presenter posts, and keynotes

RailsConf 2009 is drawing ever closer and it’s going to be one hell of a show worthy of Vegas glitz and glamour. To let you all get more familiar with who’s going to be talking and what they’ll be talking about, Chad Fowler has been doing a series of presenter interviews:

RailsConf Speaker Interview: Michael Bleigh

Next up in my series of RailsConf speaker interviews is Michael Bleigh, who is Creative Director and Open-Source Activist at Intridea in Washington D.C.

Michael will be presenting Twitter on Rails at RailsConf this year, highlighting a small but growing trend of applications using Twitter as a communication platform.

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