Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Backbone, Compass, Susy (Sass plugin), Sass, CoffeeScript, Heroku, Postgresql, Facebook Open Graph API by Koala gem, Amazon S3
AJAX, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, HAML, Ruby on Rails, SASS
Ruby on Rails, Open calais Searchify, jQuery, FQL
AJAX, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, HAML, Ruby on Rails, SASS
Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Torquebox, Backbone.js
Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CMS
Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,CMS
Sproutcore, Website Design, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails, Website Design, CMS
Ruby on Rails, Website Design, CMS, jQuery
For those of you who happen to look at other parts of our site, like the portfolio, you may have curious about our personal productivity tool, Todo Zen. It’s a great example of a viable product that was too slow to the market to make an impact, derailed by the success of an incompatible business. So what happened, and what can you learn from our experience? read more →
The service category of helping companies scale their staff with remote contractors who integrate into the current business process. So where did this term come from? Back in 2009, after a few months of working part time on my first software product, my company announced a voluntary layoff program, due to the excess software engineers in the organization. Within a day, I signed up to sign off. With some self funding, I had an 18 month window to try to find a profitable business after I found a technical co-founder. read more →
When you’re trying to create a new product as a non technical person, it might seem easy at first, until you start looking for real technical partners. Either you need to pay more than you can afford, or they simply aren’t interested in what you want. As a potential technical co-founder, there’s often so much work that has to be done before an idea gets validated, it sometimes feels like you’re on your own, with a non technical co-founder just waiting for things to happen. read more →
When I ran into my friend Kenji at a mixer a couple weeks ago, it seemed like a usual incidence of our paths crossing, given that in one recent week we ran into each other 4 times at various tech events. Little did I know that the project I’m posting about now would be revealed. Kenji mentioned trying to raise awareness for Vittana as a means of making a difference, via a blogger challenge. read more →
