Real Actual Password Security

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 by Nathan Acuff
You've been trained to think about passwords in a very specific way.  I'm here to tell you why all that training is probably nonsense. 

Specifically, I want to talk about these three potential passwords:
  1. M34tp1ez&
  2. 8Ks2*@nq
  3. unicorn notebook suggest...
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The Stages Gem

Thursday, January 19, 2012 by Nathan Acuff
If you have a lot of data, eventually, you will probably want to do something with it.  All data processing and analysis tasks start off with the best of intentions, but from the day a processing task is written, it begins to rot.  These sorts...
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The iGoDigital Pre-game

Monday, October 17, 2011 by Nathan Acuff
Many star athletes are known to have odd-sounding pre-game rituals, things they do to focus themselves before a big game. LeBron James takes pictures. Michael Jordan wore his college shorts under his Bulls uniform. Wade Boggs ate chicken before every...Read More »

What's Your Development Ship Date?

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Nathan Acuff
DaVinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned".  I think anyone who has been working on software for any length of time will agree that for the most part, software projects do not have a completion date, just a "ship date."
Why is this?  You...
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Simple Ruby Workers with Mongodb and Resque

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by Nathan Acuff
In nearly any web application above a certain size, eventually you will need to perform background jobs.  At iGoDigital, that point came for us when we realized that some of our new user event tracking features needed about a second to run - far too...
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Cyber Monday and Personalized Product Recommendations

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 by Nathan Acuff
The new buzz in holiday shopping seems to be Cyber Monday.  After experiencing the surge of traffic the Monday after Thanksgiving, this buzz isn't wrong. Within iGoDigital's customer base, we saw an increase in traffic that was at times 50%...Read More »

Designing for Decision

Friday, May 14, 2010 by Nathan Acuff
At the core of iGoDigital's Customer Intelligence Engine is a very simple concept - we want to show the customer some products that we think they will be interested in.  If the customer continues to view recommended products, they are considering...Read More »