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Dovide - create your own video channel. View youtube and other videos from desktop!

2009-03-02T22:12:00Z

Overview

Dovide is a web based application and desktop client to play videos from youtube and organize them into channels.

Dovide desktop client

Enjoy video with our desktop client for Dovide. (For Windows only.) Download.

Feedback

We are waiting for your feedback about Dovide at mailbox@vertical-align.com.

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How to automate years in site's footer

2009-01-27T21:22:00Z

In the beginning of each year I need to update years on few my websites. To automate this process I wrote this code:

&copy; 2008 <%=(' &#151; %d ' % [Time.today.year]) if Time.today.year > 2008 %><%=link_to "Vertical Align", home_path%>

Result:
© 2008 2009 Vertical Align

Vertada - simple online app to store ideas and share them into threads.

2009-01-22T14:40:00Z

Vertada is a simple online application to store ideas. Vertada is created with Ruby on Rails and open source. You can write down ideas, attach files, share.

What inside:

File attachments to ideas
Tags
Simple text editor with video and smiles insert feature
Filtering by tags

http://ideas.vertical-align.com

In next post I will show how to do groups with tags. It is very good idea!

One more salsa party ;)

2008-11-07T23:32:00Z

After salsa lesson party

2008-09-20T14:27:00Z

Paypal Express Recurring Payments

2008-07-03T09:43:00Z

This is the extension for activemerchant to work with recurring payments:

include ActiveMerchant::Billing

# simple extension to ActiveMerchant for basic support of recurring payments with Express Checkout API

module ActiveMerchant #:nodoc:

  module Billing #:nodoc:

    class PaypalExpressRecurringGateway < Gateway

      include PaypalCommonAPI
      LIVE_REDIRECT_URL = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_customer-billing-agreement&token='
      TEST_REDIRECT_URL = 'https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_customer-billing-agreement&token='
      def redirect_url
        test? ? TEST_REDIRECT_URL : LIVE_REDIRECT_URL
      end
      def redirect_url_for(token)
        "#{redirect_url}#{token}"
      end

      def setup_agreement(description, return_url, cancel_url)
        commit 'SetCustomerBillingAgreement', build_setup_request(description, return_url, cancel_url)
      end

      def create_profile(token, description, cycles, amount, next_billing_date)
        commit 'CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile', build_create_profile_request(token, description, cycles, amount, next_billing_date)
      end
  
      def update_profile(profile_id, description, amount)
        commit 'UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfile', build_change_profile_request(profile_id, description, amount)
      end

      def cancel_profile(profile_id)
        commit 'ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatus', manage_profile_request(profile_id, 'Cancel')
      end

      def get_profile_details(profile_id)
        commit 'GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails', build_get_profile_details_request(profile_id)
      end

    private
      def build_setup_request(description, return_url, cancel_url)
        xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :indent => 2
        xml.tag! 'SetCustomerBillingAgreementReq', 'xmlns' => PAYPAL_NAMESPACE do
          xml.tag! 'SetCustomerBillingAgreementRequest', 'xmlns:n2' => EBAY_NAMESPACE do
            xml.tag! 'n2:Version', 50
            xml.tag! 'n2:SetCustomerBillingAgreementRequestDetails' do
              xml.tag! 'n2:BillingAgreementDetails' do
                xml.tag! 'n2:BillingType', 'RecurringPayments'
                xml.tag! 'n2:BillingAgreementDescription', description
              end
              xml.tag! 'n2:ReturnURL', return_url
              xml.tag! 'n2:CancelURL', cancel_url
            end
          end
        end
        xml.target!
      end

      def build_create_profile_request(token, description, cycles, amount, billing_start_date, currency='USD')
        xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :indent => 2
        xml.tag! 'CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileReq', 'xmlns' => PAYPAL_NAMESPACE do
          xml.tag! 'CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequest', 'xmlns:n2' => EBAY_NAMESPACE do
            xml.tag! 'n2:Version', 50
            xml.tag! 'n2:CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestDetails' do
              xml.tag! 'Token', token
              xml.tag! 'n2:RecurringPaymentsProfileDetails' do
                xml.tag! 'n2:BillingStartDate', billing_start_date
              end
              xml.tag! 'n2:ScheduleDetails' do
                xml.tag! 'n2:Description', description
                xml.tag! 'n2:PaymentPeriod' do
                  xml.tag! 'n2:BillingPeriod', 'Month'
                  xml.tag! 'n2:BillingFrequency', cycles
                  xml.tag! 'n2:TotalBillingCycles', 0
                  xml.tag! 'n2:Amount', amount, 'currencyID' => currency
                end
              end
            end
          end
        end
        xml.target!
      end

      def build_change_profile_request(profile_id, description, amount)
        xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :indent => 2
        xml.tag! 'UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfileReq', 'xmlns' => PAYPAL_NAMESPACE do
          xml.tag! 'UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequest', 'xmlns:n2' => EBAY_NAMESPACE do
            xml.tag! 'n2:Version', 50
            xml.tag! 'n2:UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestDetails' do
              xml.tag! 'ProfileID', profile_id
              xml.tag! 'n2:ScheduleDetails' do
                xml.tag! 'n2:Description', description
                xml.tag! 'n2:PaymentPeriod' do
                  xml.tag! 'n2:Amount', amount
                end
              end
            end
          end
        end
        xml.target!
      end
      
      def manage_profile_request(profile_id, action)
        xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :indent => 2
        xml.tag! 'ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatusReq', 'xmlns' => PAYPAL_NAMESPACE do
          xml.tag! 'ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatusRequest', 'xmlns:n2' => EBAY_NAMESPACE do
            xml.tag! 'n2:Version', 50
            xml.tag! 'n2:ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatusRequestDetails' do
              xml.tag! 'ProfileID', profile_id
              xml.tag! 'n2:Action', action
            end
          end
        end
        xml.target!
      end

      def build_get_profile_details_request(profile_id)
        xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :indent => 2
        xml.tag! 'GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetailsReq', 'xmlns' => PAYPAL_NAMESPACE do
          xml.tag! 'GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetailsRequest', 'xmlns:n2' => EBAY_NAMESPACE do
            xml.tag! 'n2:Version', 50
            xml.tag! 'ProfileID', profile_id
          end
        end
        xml.target!
      end

      def build_response(success, message, response, options = {})
        PaypalExpressProfileResponse.new(success, message, response, options)
      end
   end

    class PaypalExpressProfileResponse < PaypalExpressResponse
      def profile_id
        @params['profile_id']
      end

      def next_billing_date
        @params['next_billing_date']
      end

      def active?
         @params["profile_status"]=="ActiveProfile"
      end
    end
  end
end

Using the results of victory

2008-06-03T12:41:00Z

Activity should give results that you can own.

Forums on DoStorm

2008-06-03T12:37:00Z

Yesterday I did deployed forulio to dostorm website. Forums are available at forum.dostorm.com.

DoStorm & Forulio.com

2008-03-13T13:38:00Z

Some weeks ago I with my friend Ruslan started weekend project Forulio.com. We are working on it only on weekends and during work week we collect ideas and thoughts in DoStorm. I like how this process looks, DoStorm are good tool for collection ideas and sharing them.

This is how one of our brainstorm looks:

Also while using DoStorm we got some very nice ideas how to improve it. Some of them are:

combine with todo functionality
add reminders
add notes
improve interface to easier navigate thought rounds
add round result, that should be added when closing round

Actually, we created new brainstorm session for DoStorm improvements ;)

Public brainstorms link removed

2008-02-24T18:46:00Z

I decided to remove link to public brainstorms on main page of DoStorm.com. I think that if you want to share your brainstorm round, you can post your link to blog or send it via email, but there is no sense in making public all shared rounds.

DoStorm new design

2008-02-21T16:37:00Z

After short delay I came back to DoStorm. Designer Rustam joined to team so now i am not alone;).

Our new logo:

Very first design draft is here:

There are some new features that we want to implement. In next releases well be added possibility to comment suggestions and chat window on round page. We are thinking about how to display round with expanded suggestions that became new rounds. How to export round in easy to read format.

Render partial with gettext problem

2007-12-10T13:13:00Z

While rendering some template you can get error message, something like :
ActionView::TemplateError (Couldn't find template file for admin/users/_new_edit_en The "_en" is added by gettext. To make gettext skip trying to render template that is not exists, I made change in gettext gem:


ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.10.0/lib/gettext

line 328 : 
return render_file_without_locale(localized_path, use_full_path, local_assigns) if File.exists?(localized_path)

Rocket's engine

2007-11-23T19:46:00Z

I am happy! Rocket's engines here: http://rc-mania.com.ua/rc-mania.php

More powerful - Model Rocket Motors but there they do not deliver outside USA ;(

Also there are engines from China

Brainstorm round for non registered users

2007-11-15T19:02:00Z

Now all users can try to use DoStorm application before registration.

After registration you can:

create as many rounds as you need
start new rounds from suggestion
share your rounds

How to install mysql gem without mysql installed

2007-11-10T09:41:00Z


apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

gem install mysql