Links tagged with “Gmail”
Communicating with code
Paul Buchheit discusses how Gmail was first built: not by long meetings about strategy, but rather through prototyping. I tend to really enjoy this approach, because it allows you to actually try thing outs, instead of just discussing if a feature might work. It may mean having some truly awful code at first, but it’s a great way to really learn what works and what doesn’t, and I think with the rise of frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django, this style of development becomes a lot easier.
Using Gmail with IMAP to Receive Emails in Rails
An awesome walk-through of how to set up Rails to receive email from Gmail.