Web Applications

How to Find a Good Rails Developer

November 12, 2010 Web Applications

Before I get into the details of finding your next rails developer, I thought a bit of background would be worth sharing. One of the earliest tactical mistakes I made as I developed my web platform at BiggerPockets was to convert the application from PHP to Ruby on Rails. I was fairly skilled in PHP, [...]

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Technorati’s WTF Got Game(d)

May 15, 2007 Blogging

Introducing Technorati’s WTF aka Where’s The Fire I don’t think it has quite caught on yet, but Technorati has built it’s own answer to Digg, Reddit and the rest of the social news and bookmarking sites. It’s called Where’s The Fire or WTF and covers “What’s Hot, and Why.” Considering the popularity and resources of [...]

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MySpace Takes on Digg / Netscape and Fails to Deliver. Yup, It Sucks!

April 20, 2007 Social Media

Looks like MySpace wants to go back to its roots and launch another crappy product without style or functionality. The recently launched their MySpace News Beta (of course they had to include the uber-lame BETA tag – more about BETAs in another post), which looks like a really poorly modified Pligg clone. You would think [...]

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Easy eCommerce with Shopify; Hosted Online Store Solution

April 9, 2007 eCommerce

Introducing Shopify, A Hosted eCommerce Solution I just found out about a cool new ecommerce solution called Shopify. The site is a beautifully designed web 2.0, Ruby on Rails hosted ecommerce site. According to the few reviews that I found about the site, setup was extremely quick and easy. The site is free to use, [...]

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phpBB Forum Spammer Registration Mod – Kill the SpamBots!

December 19, 2006 Forums

I found a great mod for phpBB forum administrators. This particular mod will ban any user who registers for your forum from a particular time zone. I’m not sure if many newbies to phpBB are aware, but most SPAM registrations come from GMT-12 Timezone. If you can prevent users from registering from that zone, you’ll [...]

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Need a Good Feed Reader or Aggregator for Mac

December 8, 2006 Blogging

I’ve been suffering a bit here with my new iMac. Everything is perfect, except I’m lacking an adequate feed reader / aggregator. I’m currently using an aggregator called Vienna, a RSS reader for Mac OS X, but it does not compare to FeedReader (the PC reader I’ve been using). Vienna lacks the ability to easily [...]

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New Look for Your MediaWiki Wiki

November 27, 2006 Web Applications

I’ve been trying to find a new look for my real estate wiki, but have had no luck while searching for templates. I realized I’d have to look for “wiki skins.” After some searching, I found a great resource with a bunch of great ones. If you’re looking to change your wiki’s look, here is [...]

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Exploring Wikis and E-Commerce

November 13, 2006 eCommerce

Building a Wiki Site Last month I mentioned that I was looking into setting up a Wiki and that I had chosen MediaWiki to do so. Since then, I’ve set up my first wiki (it is a work in progress), a real estate wiki. The set up was really easy – like most scripts, the [...]

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