We are a small web development and marketing studio.
We are known for being efficient and pragmatic without compromising on quality.
It’s a secret for no one, I love VIM. But one of the most annoying moment is when you copy a line somewhere (yy) then you delete a line somewhere else (dd) and finally you want to paste the previously yanked line somewhere else. Well, we’ve all been there haven’t we?
Yesterday, we released a new version of FreelanceAround. The first version was an attempt of MVP to see if freelancers were interested in meeting each other during working hours. Our answer is that, **yes people are interested, but our product wasn’t … (continued)
_Last week I wrote a post about installing and configuring Openbox on Ubuntu. As I said, I’ve been playing around with window managers for quite a while now, and Unity, wasn’t to my taste. But I recently ins… (continued)
_In a previous post, I talked about testing Facebook login with capybara. Today I just want to share a quick “recipe” that I used to create multiple Facebook logins. **Let me explai… (continued)
OpenBox is a very lightweight and easy to hack desktop environment for Linux.
Major distributions are usually shipped using Gnome or KDE, and now Ubuntu is shipped with Unity, but I’m sure you’ll find an Openbox package in your distribution repos.
_The… (continued)
I’m currently working on the next version of My Drinkaware app, and yesterday my feature card was to share some information on Facebook.
Yes, sharing with Facebook is usually super simple. Either you have the normal ‘Share with Fac… (continued)
Ok, it’s Friday afternoon, and I’m sure you’ll love this video of the The Empire Strikes Back Imperial March played by floppy disk :)
Happy procrastination :)
The good thing with being your own boss is that you can manage your time as you like and therefore make time to work on personal projects.
Besides project management and the daily running of the business, I work on a project called **[Happy Daddy Magazine](http://www.happydaddym… (continued)
Nic and I have now been working together for about 6 months - long enough to reflect on what it means to build a business with your spouse.
When he asked me if I wanted to work with (for?) him, we weren’t even married yet. At the time, I was about to quit my job, which was making … (continued)
Crawling the web every day, we’ll try and compile every week our best discoveries of the developer and startup worlds.
Earlier this week, on the 13th of September, it was programmer’s day. I hope you enjoyed it. In our office, we… (continued)
While writing a future blog post on Openbox, I had some troubles with code Markdown rendering in HAML
A few montha ago Ryan Bates released a Railscast on Markdown with Redcarpet. Redcarpet is awesome, but for this blog… (continued)
We watched the 7th episode of Dragons’ Den yesterday night on BBC 2, and as usual some entrepreneurs didn’t have their figures prepared.
Now, when you go and face an investor to raise funds, figures are one of the … (continued)
Crawling the web everyday, we’ll try to compile every week our best discoveries of the developer and startups world.
I’ve started a new project this week, and found this link, which explains how to use the Rails HTML5 boilerplate gem asset packaging compatible…. (continued)
There’s at least one thing Nic and I have in common: a passion for notebooks.
You see, our decluttering process brought to the surface a rather sad reality: we are notebook freaks. In total we found, scattered around the house (study, living room, bedroom) about 20 notebooks,… (continued)
Last week, one of the features requested for the new version of My Drinkaware app was to implement a Facebook login and signup.
The app was already using Devise for the Authentication, so implementing the f… (continued)
*Being an entrepreneur and starting your own business feels great. But it often comes at a price: no time, no money, no relationship. Well, it’s what many people think. Fortunately I’m not one of them. I’m not saying we have plenty of time and money with ideal relationships. I’m sayin… (continued)
Is there anything better on a Monday morning than a motivational video?
When you set up a business, whether it is a graphic design business, a wine selling business, a car repair shop or a development shop, one of the most important things you need is love!
Talent is importa… (continued)
_Choosing the channels to use in your online marketing strategy can be a struggle. You can’t only have one. You need the right mix which is appropriate for your business, your industry and your budget. You also need to know what ROI you can expect from each channel. So I’m going to gi… (continued)
This is my first post on our company blog, I just want to explain to those who don’t know us who we are and what we will be doing here. I wish you a good read.
Let me make the introductions. My name is Nicolas Alpi and I’m a Ruby on Rails/javaScript develope… (continued)