Life in a Startup

Monthly Archives: August 2007

A little silence never hurt anybody

So I thought I’d write a little post letting everyone know that I haven’t forgotten about them.? I’ve been a little busy with working on a Rails blog that I was going to be creating, and have had a few web design projects I’ve been trying to get finished up.? Hopefully I won’t be much [...]

DC Startupweekend

Uploaded with Skitch! So I just wanted to remind people that I’m still planning on going to the DC Startup Weekend. There’s some great ideas so I’m really looking forward to what other ideas get added. Check out the list of already growing cities that have committed to hosting a Startup Weekend.

Look What Jing Can Do!

Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it???s Command + [...]

Where’s the Business Mac?

Tuesday Apple Inc. announced a new generation of the iMac. Something the rumor mill has called, as well as what most of us have been expecting. But why not make a business mac? Isn’t that what we are all lacking? Let’s take a look at Apple’s computer lineup. First off we start out with the [...]

Ruby on Rails Spam Protection

So I’ve been looking through various tutorials and such trying to find something that protects comment spam.? So far the only thing I’ve been able to come up with is Akismet. Us WordPress users know what Akismet is, but there’s some various tutorials out there that show us how to use Akismet in our ROR [...]