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 […]
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, […]
Back when I first heard about microformats, I was pretty blown away. Even now I’m designing things that I’m pretty sure I can trace back to the realizations I had with microformats. Back around the first BarCamp, I was working on something called Microseek, which does exactly what Technorati’s new Microformats Search does.
Obviously, with […]
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 […]
Caterina of Flickr founding fame, plays devil’s advocate on the idea that now is a great time to start a company. This is the first time I’ve heard somebody take a stance like this, so I’m glad it’s been done. With these things said, I will now start a company.
Personally, I think if you’re […]
This post is about a problem I’ve been trying to solve for a while now. I have a large data structure that represents, in the most general case, all the relationships between the data in a relational database. It’s like a big directory of all the contents in a database with tons of symbolic links. […]
While I was at the DevHouse, I mentioned Joshua to some people. Kragen pointed me to Jesse Ruderman’s JavaScript Shell. Alright, so it’s been done before. In fact, Jesse does everything I wanted and more, and is even more clever in implementation.
Then later, David pointed me to MochiKit’s Interpreter demo. Well, that wasn’t as […]
Let me start by admitting to how wrong I was about not being able to introspect on functions in Javascript. Why didn’t anybody tell me? It turns out that using Prototype’s $H function strips out function properties from an object. I suppose that makes sense, so now I get object properties the old-fashioned way with […]
Join us for the DevHouse to celebrate its six month anniversary on Saturday, December 10th!
After 5 successful gatherings, the DevHouse has become the Bay Area’s premier event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. Not to mention our recent addition of Geek Pitches, which has made the DevHouse also […]