Matthew Bass

I built the original Spreedly extension for Radiant a couple of years ago. It’s a nice little package that makes it really easy to integrate Spreedly’s subscription payment system with your Radiant site. You can choose which pages to require a subscription to view, manage subscribers from the admin backend, and so on. It’s long overdue, but I finally got around to upgrading the extension to work flawlessly with Radiant 0.9.1. Check it out and have fun.

I’ll be presenting on A/B testing at tonight’s raleigh.rb meetup. As developers, we use tools like RSpec and Cucumber to verify that our application is functional, but how can we verify that the layout of our home page is user-friendly? How can we determine the ideal size for our signup button? How can we maximize throughput to our signup form? A/B testing is an easy and compelling way to increase the effectiveness of our web applications. Join us tonight to learn how to leverage A/B testing in Ruby using several popular tools.

I just returned from BizConf (a fantastic experience which I’ll be summarizing in a future post) and I have to report one very sad thing: out of four airports I passed through, RDU is still the only one that doesn’t offer free wi-fi. Nashville, Tampa, and Jacksonville all have it. RDU charges. This just doesn’t seem right, especially given that out of the aforementioned cities, Raleigh is known as a high tech mecca. This is RTP for cryin’ out loud. Please fix?