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Announcing s3bucketpolicy.com
Because S3 is awesome but the policies are awful, we created a small tool for you!
Setting up an S3 bucket for your uploads/assets
In the past few weeks, we at Firmhouse are starting to make all our apps 12factor compliant. One thing that we needed...
Persistent storage for your Rails apps with Dokku and Docker
At Firmhouse, we're building Intercity Next. An open source hosting management panel for Ruby on Rails that hosts apps on servers of your choice.
Simple signup and login in your app (Part 2)
In my previous post, I showed you how to easily create a simple signup for your Rails app, without needing any external gems.
Basic signup in your Rails app with has_secure_password
The past week I've been working on a little web app that lets you post to a Twitter account as a group: http://samentweeten.nl.
Run migrations on Dokku/Heroku deployment
We at Firmhouse are currently moving our projects over to a new version of Intercity, which is using Dokku as its backend. Dokku is a "Docker powered...
Schedule recurring jobs with Sidekiq 4
Something I keep getting back to is setting up scheduled recurring jobs with Sidekiq, even though some people say it's not the tool for the job...
Minimum Viable Products emerge from Experiments
Robbert wrote about most Minimum Viable Products (MVP) likely being an experiment. Lean Startup has been around for a while now...
Your MVP is probably just an Experiment
During our last meetup in Eindhoven, we talked about the Minimum Viable Product, the MVP. This is one of the most popular...
Most Startups are Expensive Hobbies
I wrote this post originally in 2012 when the news of Kraft splitting in two companies was announced. According Dutch news sources...
Hybrid native apps are great for launching new mobile apps
At Firmhouse, we regularly build hybrid native apps when working on new mobile apps and Minimum Viable Products.
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