I was in a need of a bit.ly integration for URL shortening for a client recently. I found a great one called ILBitly, but it was built on top of AFNetworking and JSONKit. Since I didn’t want to introduce these additional dependencies into the app, I created an updated version of ILBitly called
I’ve been checking out several of the new Django hosting services including gondor.io in a previous post and now dotcloud. My overall goal is to evaluate them in the context of building very quick and lightweight mobile web services / APIs.
The setup and installation went very well except when I tried to deviate from [...]
I’ve been meaning to check out several of the new Django hosting services including gondor.io, dotcloud, and ep.io. I haven’t received invitations to all of them yet, so I’ll start with gondor since I received that invitation quite a while ago. My overall goal is to evaluate them in the context of building very quick [...]
Brierwood sent a little contingent down to participate at HackOtt. It was a great event with lots of energy and tech stars from the local community.
Shawn and I formed a team to create an application using the Yellow API (one of the official APIs) and Urban Airship (an unofficial but also very useful [...]
Shawn and I have been working on a great Rails project over the last six months called Givv.org. It is the best way to contribute to your favourite charities, non-profits, open-source projects, or even friends and family. You should go check it out and I highly recommend signing up. Unfortunately, it’s limited to US-based [...]
"So, what are you up to nowadays?"
Its the professional equivalent of talking about the weather, but since starting our worker cooperative, it triggers a lot more than the usual light banter. This is how it usually goes:
"So, what are you working on these days?"
"Shawn, Reid, and I started a co-op."
"A [...]
A few days ago, I read The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online by Kevin Kelly. I found the article very relevant to me, because we are essentially living it. The article is actually about the shift to a peer-production society, where business is carried out by free exchange between individuals, [...]
I have been working on a website conversion recently. Part of the work involves migrating an existing database schema into a slightly different schema. Exactly why this is required is not important. In addition, I don’t really want to talk about it in case this is work I’ve created for myself out of ignorance.
I’ve [...]
I have to say that I really never expected to be writing part II of the last tetris blog post which was not at all about writing a tetris app and totally about the power of LISP macros. In a similar vein, this post is not at all about writing a tetris app and [...]
The upcoming May long weekend is an exciting one for the Brierwood Design team. We’re holding our very first Hackathon weekend at The Code Factory starting Friday noon and continuing throughout the weekend.
This particular Hackathon is focused on bringing interactive and collaborative web applications to the desktop using technologies such as jQuery, [...]
Twitter
- NSIncrementalStore looks pretty useful. http://t.co/MBKIafFG 2012/01/23
- @HipChat trying to upgrade my account to the new pricing. "These plans will only be available for -1 more days." 2011/11/25
- @tapptics wondering about the differences between the AppSumo package and the offers on your website… 2011/11/19
- @HipChat awesome, count me in! 2011/11/14
