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Ruby-isms 15 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Here are some ruby things that are really gross and you shouldn’t do: Unless not nil I was guilty of this back in the day at projectx, I used to be editing code and instead of understanding what was...
The Reddit App Predictor 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
This is a bit of a stretch, but it occurred to me while using vine, that you could look at some of the culture of reddit and use it predict what might be a successful app. Animated Gifs Animated gif...
Beervana Recap 12 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
So, last Thursday at about 3pm, Erin Francis had the idea to build a mobile app that we could use to keep track of what beers we had drunk at Beervana, and to get some rankings on the beers that peopl...
Geoblogging 7 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
I think geoblogging might become a popular thing. It’s pretty nerdy, and whenever I research the larger social networks, no one really seems to care very much about location when they create content, ...
Turbolinks instead of backbone 6 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
I read this interesting article by Matt De Leon, about using turbolinks and server-side generated javascript with Rails to build a nice fast app. He is a backbone developer, and found that he could bu...
Branch auto deployment 25 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Here’s a good idea. If you worked at a medium sized consumer start-up (say Flickr before yahoo bought them), it’d be awesome that if every time you created a git branch - your CI system automatically ...
The Official Ben Nolan 27 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
I must point out to my readers, that I am not the Official Ben Nolan. This guy is. Check out his soundcloud page if you like house music.
A more social version of Google Maps 19 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
For those that don’t know, I’m the owner of ZoomIn.co.nz. And I thought I’d share some background: I started zoomin back in 2005, before Google Maps released in New Zealand. Back then there were no m...
Aggregator for local restaurants and bars 7 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
I stumbled across this idea the other day, when I was wondering what was going on in town, so as you do, I went to the facebook page for hashigo zake, then bebemos, then little beer quarter, then gold...
Competitive landscape in trip planning sites 4 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
I’ve been working on placepinner exclusively lately, to the expense of my other web property, ZoomIn. ZoomIn is still making a little bit of adsense revenue though, so it’s ok just to tick over in the...
