GeekRetreat Stanford – My Personal Experience and Highlights

18 Jan

Posted by Peter Flynn as Developers Interest, PersonL, Ruby on rails, SCRUM, South Africa, Uncategorized, WWW Site

To summarize – GeekRetreat Stanford completely exceeded my expectations and the organizers ( Heather Ford, Justin Spratt and Eve Dmochowska) deserve special recognition for their vision and approach which achieved such a superb result from such a motley crew of delegates. To expand, read the the rest of this post…

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At last we can breathe the word “Twitsumé”

19 Aug

Posted by Peter Flynn as PersonL, Products, Ruby on rails, WWW Site

We have really been looking forward to announcing the launch of our new online résumé/CV product called Twitsumé and it has been tough to not say too much. But at last the launch date has arrived and we can tell you all about it. First things first – it’s found at twitsume.com In a nutshell, [...]

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Twitter and Facebook down

06 Aug

Posted by Peter Flynn as Development Processes, Ruby on rails, WWW Site

Yup – it’s true. Twitter has experienced one of the longest outages in years, while Facebook has been experiencing intermittent disruptions for a number of minutes (becoming hours) already today. The reason for Twitter’s down time is a “denial of service” (DoS) attack according to their status blog. The reason’s for Facebook being down/disrupted are [...]

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Online convenience for travel claims

11 Mar

Posted by Peter Flynn as Office Stuff, Products, Ruby on rails, South Africa, WWW Site, Web 2.0

In response to a recent stipulation enforced by SARS (South African Revenue Service), which states that effective 1 March 2009, South African tax payers will be required to properly track their travel and related expenses in order to qualify for rebates, we’ve launched a free web application that enables users to accomplish this online. Available [...]

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New PersonL Site Blitz!

01 Aug

Posted by Peter Flynn as Agile, Ajax, Office Stuff, PersonL, Ruby on rails, WWW Site, Web 2.0

Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office: “We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow… So we got cracking and churned out a [...]

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4 Web Resolutions for 2008

15 Jan

Posted by Turbo as Ajax, Client Work, Developers Interest, Development Processes, Office Stuff, Project Management, Ruby on rails, Technologies, WWW Site, Web 2.0

Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like [...]