October 19th, 2008 — win, railsrumble, community, web, rubyonrails, startup, tech
Our Rails Rumble app is live. Check out our screencast.
If you use Rails, install the plugin:
Rails:
script/plugin install git://github.com/giraffesoft/what_does_this_error_mean-rails
Merbivores:
sudo gem install what_does_this_error_mean-merb
An app, 2 plugins and a screencast. We haven’t finished all the features we wanted, but that’s not too shabby.
Now make sure you vote for us 
October 16th, 2008 — win, web, startup, rubyonrails, tech
We’re been preparing for Rails Rumble for months, a competition where we have 48 hours to create and launch a web application. 2 full days to go from an idea to its implementation, at which point people can vote for us 
Francois has a training video you must see to appreciate the grueling preparations we undertook.
Along with James and Mathieu, we’re team Giraffesoft. The project is called What does this error mean .com, and will be up soon.
The competition rules are such that we can make use of code we open sourced, which will include blank. And while we brainstormed the idea and feature set (also allowable), we have not written a single line of code for this project. With Francois and James on the same team, I don’t think that will be a problem!
Good luck to all other Rumble participants.
September 22nd, 2008 — win, web, customerservice, usability, ui
So, VIA gives you a 50% discount on train travel if you jump through a few hoops. I expected pain, and got a gem instead. Behold:
At this point regular VIA users might be thinking it’s a phishing attempt; they usually aren’t this nice or clueful. Let’s hope things keep going in that direction (ha, ha, ha).
If you are reading this on the day I post this; go get a coupon now and you can book later.