Coffeerings Articles

Minor Capistrano Issue

I'm dumping this on the site for reference more than anything else.  One of our older sites uses the rather stange combination of Capistrano and Rsync for deployment.  We upgraded to a new staging server, installed all ...read more

Merging on/offline with a little social stuff mixed in

It becoming more common for marketing campaigns to break the boundaries between the real and digital worlds. More recently the introduction of social elements to these productions has increased the personal connection.  M...read more

Bits in the news...

In a bid to make sense of the many random bookmarks I stick into delicious.com each week I've decided to briefly highlight the more interesting bits floating around.first up...last.fm vs Techcrunchread more

Post Code Search Using Google API

Recently I've had a requirement to map locations based on radius from a user defined point, basically the user would enter a postcode/location and items within a 10 mile radius are found from the database. This solution...read more

Upgrading alltradeart's subscription model

alltradeart went for a year without any change to the subscription model. Originally I'd intended to change the pricing depending on popularity and launch promotional rates aimed at specific groups of users. This never happene...read more