It strikes me as odd that in a city as wholly dependent on bikes to commute to and from work, there’s so little innovation in the bike repair space.
First, any decent car repair shop will loan you a …
I wasn’t aware of geonames.com until just now when I read this blog post from Greenpeace IT.
It’s looking very neat, and I think we’ll want to build this into the Boxes and Arrows events calendar.
T…
Riffing a bit more on Derek Powazek and his 8020 Publishing, what’s interesting is that while he, Threadless, OpenDemocracy, Boxes and Arrows, and others are all prime individual examples of we media,…
Just a quick note to say that I do not recommend chopping off the tip of a finger. Not that I did, but I got eerily close on Wednesday night when I cut halfway through my left pinkie in addition to th…
There’s a webcast up of Derek Powazek’s talk about community-first publishing at the Knock Knock conference. It’s definitely worth viewing, it’s a very interesting and hot space—and exactly the market…
Everyone’s doing it, and so are we: The Boxes and Arrows Job Board is live!
The staff frequently gets email from people asking if they can help fill a position—well, now we can.
So if you’re looking…
My server got hacked once again. I’m not sure what I’ve done to attract this kind of unwanted attention – I’m doing all the obvious things like keeping the system patched, passwords secure, moved SSH …
Most sites have a “Remember me” checkbox of some sort, which will store a permanent cookie, rather than a session cookie, so you don’t have to login again the next time you visit.
JPG magazine takes th…
I just realized that my production servers were running the Ruby version of the MySQL driver, to the tune of a performance penalty of 10-15%, according to Riding Rails.
It turns out the compilation h…
Do you ever get the feeling that the captain has simply forgotten that the fasten seat belt sign is still on? And thought it’s probably because they’re not themselves affected by it?
Yes, I’m back in…
