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Latest blog posts from Assay Depot Developer Blog

Merb Camp
div img src="/assets/2008/10/10/merb_camp.gif" alt="ruby gem" / /div p I just wanted to write a quick blog post about a href="http://merbcamp.com"MerbCamp/a this weekend. MerbCamp is the first Merb conference. So what is Merb? Well, from a href="http://merbivore.com"the Merb website/a:... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Upgrading Ruby Gems to 1.2.0
div img src="/assets/2008/8/4/ruby_gem.jpg" alt="ruby gem" / /div div p I just finished deploying the latest version of the website, and I ran into some trouble related to the gems we use, specifically the version of rubygems we use. I'm posting this here in case anyone runs across a similar... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Powermed
img class="headline" src="http://blog.assaydepot.com/assets/2008/5/29/powerset.png" / p By now I'm sure you've tried or at least heard of a href="http://www.powerset.com"Powerset/a. In their own words: blockquote a href="http://www.powerset.com"Powerset's/a goal is to change the way people... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Upgrade to Rails 2.1.0_RC1
p div a href="http://www.brawndo.com" img src="http://blog.assaydepot.com/assets/2008/5/23/upgrayedd.jpg" alt="upgrayedd" / /a br / bupgrade (with 2 Ds)/b /div Today seemed like a good day for an upgrade, so I decided to update our app to Rails 2.1.0_RC1. (The real... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

Great Visualizations
p Visualizing complex data can be hard. How do you get your point across when the data you have to present doesn't fit nicely into a bar chart, pie chart, line graph or histogram? /p p Over the last couple of weeks, I've come across a number of great visualizations. They cover a range of topics,... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

Torrey Pines Hike
p On Thursday, Assay Depot took a hike through the Torrey Pines State Reserve. Our three conferences were marketing successes and yielded what seemed like nonstop mornings and nights of hard work, so we decided to take an afternoon off. The reserve is home to one of the rarest pines in the world,... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

SDRuby EC2
p Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation on EC2 to a href="http://sdruby.com"San Diego Ruby User Group/a. In an effort to keep the talk accessible, I intentionally kept the slides simple and promised to supplement them with a EC2 cheat sheet. Well here it is: /p p a... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

Life Scientists and Social Media
p I just got an email from a href="http://www.gene2drug.com/"BioInformatics LLC/a advertising their new a href="http://lifesciencesocialmedia.com/?dnum=11"new report, iThe New Collaboration: Social Media and the Life Science Opportunity/i/a. It is a great report, and is closely related to what we... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

SOT 2008
p Last week was the a href="http://www.toxicology.org/"Society of Toxicology (SOT)/a meeting in Seattle Washington. It the first conference where the Assay Depot had a booth, and in my opinion it was a huge success! We met a lot of great people, started to get the message out and talked to a... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Create Your Own EC2 Image
p We have been working day and night preparing for our beta launch in April, which is just one of the many excuses I have for not posting in so long. Part of preparing for that launch is setting up the platform that we are going to deploy to. For numerous reasons, we’ve chosen a... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Geocoding in Ruby
h1The Geocode Module/h1 p Have you ever needed to turn a partial address into a full one? Have you ever wanted to get the latitude or longitude for a particular address? Maybe you want to plot addresses on a Google Map, or maybe, like a colleague of mine, you find it redundant to ask for city,... Read more...
Published 11 months ago

Stats on Rails
h1The Stats Module/h1 Have you ever had an array of numbers and needed to know if one was a statistical outlier? Ever needed the standard deviation of those numbers? Well, I was recently working on an app, where I did. I packaged up the functionality as the following Module. table... Read more...
Published 11 months ago