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SuperHappyDevHouse 17 is happening this Caturday on Cinco de Mayo.I, for one, welcome our new lolcat overlords.
RSVP on upcoming

I’ve mentioned Mailhook a few times, but I haven’t spent a lot of time writing about it. Let me introduce it to you properly:
Mailhook is the easiest way to accept email in your web apps.
Using Mailhook, you can receive email directly into your scripts and applications as easy as handling a form post. This […]

Let me start by explaining something I want to build (when I find time) called Mailhook. The idea came from building an email service (as opposed to webservice) prototype called Transmutiy that would take images via email and send you back a converted image based on the email address you sent it to. So sending […]

Today (well, yesterday) Netflix announced the project we were working with them on: Netflix Prize, a contest that offers $1 million to anybody that can substantially increase their recommendation algorithm. It was written about in the NY Times and was subsequently Dugg.
We built the site for it that basically just manages the teams, interfaces […]

Update: Let’s get serious about this shall we? A wiki has been set up to support the growing community interested in web hooks.
A while ago I realized something about our ecosystem of web applications that sort of blew me away. Since then, I’ve been trying to run it by smart people whenever I get the […]

Since my readership has never been very high, and I’m more likely to meet somebody cool at a meetup or DevHouse, I never considered posting a job position on my blog. But since I’m really overworked and I have been for a while, I figure I’ll give it a shot and at least put it […]

About seven weeks ago I registered devjavu.com because it was somewhat clever and started with dev. A few days later I realized what I wanted to do with it: free, simple, instantaneous Trac and Subversion hosting.
Subversion has become the de facto standard for source control managament in the open source world. Not long ago, […]

What if you made a web service over the weekend that would allow you to quit your job and work for yourself fulltime?
It’s been done before, and like everybody’s saying, it’s only getting easier. Nothing sounds more attractive than an automated web service that just rolls in the dough, effectively being a “money printing machine.” […]

Let me tell you a story. Actually, I’m no good at that. Let me summarize: At the first SuperHappyDevHouse, David Weekly made PBwiki.
Well, it’s been about a year since then and we’ve had almost 10 DevHouse events. So far, the only neat project that’s come directly out of the DevHouse since PBwiki (that we […]

Widgets = (Partials + Helpers) in their own directory
Ah yes, widgets. Assuming you’re familiar with Rails, these babies are a cross between helpers and partials. The idea is that they can encapsulate a piece of UI logic and template, sort of similar to the idea of components, only so much more lightweight.
Before widgets, you could […]