Polymorphism in the Database: Lift and Mongo There are a number of reasons I love Lift. I was thinking through some architectural changes that are coming with Anchor Tab soon and I realized that the integration between Lift (the web framework), lift-json (the JSON parsing library), and MongoDB are is pretty sweet. Let’s say that you’re working on a pet-themed website and you need to store information about some cats and dogs. You would probably define something similar to the following data model. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 28, 2013 · 5 mins read
If You Do Something, Stand For Something Startups are a wonderful thing. When startups get to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved before or they get to shake the cages of the establishment to spur innovation, they’re at their best. When they’re playing with a formula that’s already been done a hundred times, they’re at their worst. Somewhere in the middle is where you find most startup companies. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 22, 2013 · 8 mins read
Canvas, Chart.js, and Retina Hey folks, so, just a quick one tonight. We ran across an interesting bug on Anchor Tab awhile back that I finally got around to looking at. So, to start, on Anchor Tab we have this magical chart that shows you your views and submits for the last seven days. Presently, mine looks something like this. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 16, 2013 · 2 mins read
Intelligent New Relic Transaction Naming with Lift So, I was going to wait until the artifact showed up in Maven Central, but I’ve got other things to do today in this beautiful weather that are decidedly better than staying indoors and waiting on Sonatype to finish publishing my artifact. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 13, 2013 · 1 min read
Cross-Domain AJAX Requests in Lift Today we locked down user authentication on Anchor Tab to be SSL-only (unless I’ve severely screwed something up). As a few of you already know, I’m building Anchor Tab using the Lift Web Framework. I was first introduced to Lift at OpenStudy, and I love it. I actually was recently nominated and made a committer on the project and, although Anchor Tab has prevented me from making any significant code contributions just yet, I’m looking forward to doing so once we get our MVP out the door and we’re in data collection mode for a few weeks. Posted by Matt Farmer on March 03, 2013 · 4 mins read