PollyTrade Lets You Trade Stocks Via TwitterLast month, Lance Walley left his position as co-founder and CEO of Ruby on Rails hosting company Engine Yard , after the VC-funded startup was forced to trim its workforce by 15% last January. With nothing else on his hands immediately, Walley started building a Twitter application on his own dime (about $10,000) that would basically link your Twitter account to a brokerage account and enable ...

Using the Picnik API from Rails

July 4, 2009, 11:26 am | Bogle's Blog

The Picnik API makes it easy to add online image editing to any site that hosts images. For the benefit of those coding in Rails, here's a summary of how I integrated Picnik with iLike to allow our users to touch up photos after upload. I used the "pull version" of the API, which for our purposes was simplest and provided the most control. In a nutshell, you just need to link the user to the Piknik site with URL of the image to edit and some configuration parameters. When the user is