By Florian Motlik, May 22, 2013.
Here at Codeship we always strive to find the best ways to test our application before we go live. We need to have all the ...
By Vu Tran, May 20, 2013.
Framebase.io is a video API built by developers for developers. As such, our founding team consists of three highly technical software engineers with varying experiences ...
By Teja Yenamandra, May 15, 2013.
I have trouble finding a good place to work. I've heard from our users that this is a problem that many of us share, so ...
By Peter Reinhardt, May 13, 2013.
The following is a guest post by Peter Reinhardt, co-founder at Segment.io and author at Analytics Academy. He loves startups, math, physics and ...
By Michael Herman, May 8, 2013.
The following is a guest post by Michael Herman, author of the Real Python for the Web course. He is also the co-founder ...
By Max Hersey, Apr 29, 2013.
When you think about ways to improve your product, focusing on the following often neglected areas can have a massive impact on customer happiness and ...
By Teja Yenamandra, Apr 13, 2013.
This morning, I was spending some time on AngelList's salaries database, trying to see to what extent salaries reflected different cost-of-living indices across the ...
By JohnPaul Bennett, Apr 11, 2013.
How can I make my job post more attractive and relevant to developers?
I get asked this question often, so here’s a short guide on ...
By Valentin Golev, Apr 10, 2013.
Cropping from inside the browser is great: it's intuitive and simpler than loading a dedicated image editor. You can crop profile photos, graphics for user ...
By Thomas Schranz, Apr 5, 2013.
So what motivated us to switch to Dart? In this post I’ll try to answer this question and go into how I see Dart ...
By Hasen el Judy, Mar 19, 2013.
What the hell am I talking about? Backbone? Knockout?
These are 2 popular JavaScript frameworks, supposedly designed to help/facilitate the building of rich client application ...
By Jérôme Petazzoni, Mar 14, 2013.
Making things simple is a lot of work. At dotCloud, we package terribly complex things - such as deploying and scaling web applications - into ...
By Ryan Cook, Mar 6, 2013.
About a year ago, I applied to be a HackStar. Not too long thereafter, I got the email that I was accepted. It ended ...
By Cole Krumbholz, Mar 5, 2013.
This is part two of the Building Backbone.js with Backlift tutorial series. This part will cover:
By Chris Ismael, Feb 26, 2013.
One of the ways that Mashape facilitates easy consumption of APIs is by offering auto-generated client libraries for several programming languages, for each of the ...
By Chris Ismael, Feb 22, 2013.
And we're back! Last week, we wrote a post that taught you how to add an API to Mashape. In today's post, we'll ...
By Hillary Cage, Feb 21, 2013.
Hi there!
I’m Hillary Elmore Cage, CEO of Code Together in Bloomington, Indiana. Code Together started as a “home sprout” out of Bloomington-based incubator, Sproutbox. ...
By Cole Krumbholz, Feb 19, 2013.
This is a beginning Backbone.js tutorial that will cover:
By Chris Ismael, Feb 15, 2013.
I'm Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist at Mashape. I create value for developers and API providers by connecting them through Mashape. Prior to Mashape, I was ...
By Geoffroy Couprie, Feb 7, 2013.
Geoffroy, a freelance security geek, enjoys useful tools and useless hacks. When he is not busy looking for new ways to protect applications, he launches ...
By Teja Yenamandra, Feb 4, 2013.
Their program features in-class learning, mentorship, events, and workshops that help take batches of beginners to an intermediate programming proficiency over the course of 3 ...
By Ted Kozak, Feb 1, 2013.
Ted, the "tech guy" from AddLive was born to be a media streaming hacker, went through some hard times with Java, C/C++ and now seems ...
By Ted Kozak, Jan 22, 2013.
Ted, the "tech guy" from AddLive was born to be a media streaming hacker, went through some hard times with Java, C/C++ and now seems ...
By JohnPaul Bennett, Jan 20, 2013.
Today, we’ve got a spot by Re-Compose, an Austrian company that creates software to analyze and re-synthesize digital music. Liquid Notes is the company’s first ...
By JohnPaul Bennett, Jan 18, 2013.
Today, we spoke to Virgil Archer, one of the guys behind the TechYizu and the Startup Leadership Program in Shanghai, China. For all of you ...
By Daniel Kador, Jan 17, 2013.
Teja here - hopefully this doesn't get too confusing, but we're trying something at gun.io HQ in an attempt to introduce you guys to a ...
By Teja Yenamandra, Dec 27, 2012.
We cannot be the first band of technology entrepreneurs in a distributed setup to throw our hands up in despair after a painful and perhaps ...
By Rich Jones, Sep 10, 2012.
If you haven't noticed, we've made some serious updates to gun.io!
As our search results are now rendered on the client side rather than on ...
By Rich Jones, Aug 9, 2012.
As a native Briton, I've been remarkably proud of how well all of the British competitors have been doing at this Olympic Games. I've been ...
By Rich Jones, Aug 3, 2012.
Register? Nah. Check-in? No. Sign in/up? Nope. Join in? Maaaybe. Enrollogin? Hell no.
We're reworking a whole lot of the site at the moment (you're ...
By Rich Jones, Jul 8, 2012.
At 10:30AM on April 2, 2012, 100 Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents raided 6 marijuana dispensaries in Oakland, California while local Oakland PD officers contained ...
By Rich Jones, Jul 6, 2012.
There's an NY Times article being passed around about a small string of "Hacker Hostels" in Silicon Valley.
By Rich Jones, Jul 5, 2012.
I think I need to go on holiday.
By Rich Jones, Jun 25, 2012.
So, you want to search your git commit logs. Good news! It's really easy, and I'm going to show you how to do it.
If ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 23, 2012.
JSON is an extremely rigid schema. It's great, but it has a couple of shortcomings, the largest of which is the inability to store multi-line ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 11, 2012.
Suppose I have a popular script on my website that many people include as a script to add a feature to their sites.
Does that ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 11, 2012.
So, you're writing an embedded script and you want to pass some arbitrary arguments and parameters to your javascript. How do you do it? This ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 7, 2012.
I don't use WordPress myself any more, but many of my clients do, so here are some of the best Free and Open Source WordPress ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 7, 2012.
Tiny blog post!
Do you want to find the most recently logged in users in your Django application? Cool, no problem. You'll be filtering and ...
By Rich Jones, Jun 5, 2012.
By Rich Jones, May 31, 2012.
By Rich Jones, May 29, 2012.
I like to consider myself a very productive person. I do a lot of writing, I make a good living running my own business and ...
By Rich Jones, May 15, 2012.
UPDATE: WebP2P has a new home! ...
By Rich Jones, May 11, 2012.
"Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, ...
By Rich Jones, May 9, 2012.
A Thirty-Minute Blog Post!
A few weeks ago we got an email from somebody who wanted to post a job on Gun.io, but it ...
By Rich Jones, May 4, 2012.
tl;dr: While seeking open source audio software, I found a project which asks for a small donation before you can download the application binaries. I ...
By Rich Jones, May 2, 2012.
Arguments by analogy are fallacies. Almost any analogy between any two things contains some grain of truth, but one cannot tell what ...
By Rich Jones, Apr 25, 2012.
By Rich Jones, Apr 19, 2012.
Earlier this week we launched our new product, JobMappr.com. Of course, you didn't hear about it because we completely flubbed the launch. Somebody submitted ...
By Rich Jones, Mar 27, 2012.
This guide will teach you how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub. It assumes that you already know about how to use ...
By Rich Jones, Mar 14, 2012.
So, you've got an idea for a new mobile ...
By Rich Jones, Mar 12, 2012.
Extremely quick blog post!
Here's how to make a crude template tag which lets you add the HTML5 'placeholder' attribute to your form field inputs ...
By Rich Jones, Mar 7, 2012.
Across the globe, governments have adopted policies of seizing domain names as a way to shut down content they find objectionable. This has become a ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 24, 2012.
Howdy, folks!
This is just a quick status report about what's going on with Gun.io.
On the ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 23, 2012.
DevOps is the latest big trend in hiring. Everybody is talking about DevOps, and everybody wants them.
So, what the hell are DevOps, why do ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
tl;dr: Download GrooveMac for OSX here!
I recently discovered an awesome, awesome ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
So, you're looking to hire a Node.js developer or hire a Node.js freelancer. What should you be looking for? What makes a good ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 20, 2012.
Check it out! Gun.io has been profiled by Tech.li. Thanks to Jon Christian for reaching out to do this profile!
By Rich Jones, Feb 18, 2012.
tl;dr: I made a twitter bot to remind you to question reality in an effort to promote lucid dreaming skills.
Howdy folks! It's ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 18, 2012.
I've always known this day would come.
There are now spam bots for porn sites running ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 16, 2012.
Many people don't even know this, but Amazon.com, the 10th most popular website, also serve as a payment gateway that allows web developers to accept ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
This a short guide on how to set up Google Webmaster tools for your python django website.
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
Here's a quick to tutorial on how to iterate over a dictionary in a Django template. I get asked this quite a lot so I ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 14, 2012.
This short guide will explain some of the best strategies for hiring a quality freelance programmer, and show you some common pitfalls to avoid.
By Rich Jones, Feb 7, 2012.
The theme music for this post is: Archie Bell and the Drells - Tighten Up.
Good news, everybody! Gun.io now has tighter integration ...
By Rich Jones, Feb 2, 2012.
aka, 'A Peek Inside the Insane Philosophy of the Central Intelligence Agency.'
The theme music to this post is: Zach De La Rocha, ...
By Rich Jones, Jan 26, 2012.
The theme music for this post is: Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue [Live].
Greetings, friends!
We're pleased to announce some big ...
By Rich Jones, Jan 24, 2012.
The theme music to this post is Omodaka - Hietsuki Bushi.
As you surely noticed, there was a coordinated black-out ...
By Rich Jones, Jan 16, 2012.
I've made a purely browser-based file sharing system. Try it out with the link above or watch the ...
By Rich Jones, Jan 11, 2012.
Note: This is a living document! To get the most recent information (and the example files), look here, on GitHub. To clone the ...
By Rich Jones, Jan 8, 2012.
The theme music to this post is Blackroc - Coochie [feat ODB].
One of my hobbies is liberating government documents using Freedom of ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 29, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Percy Sledge - The Dark End of the Street.
Cool! Gun.io user MatthewBauer has ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 29, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Minor Threat - Seeing Red.
Cool! Gun.io user Falnatsheh has claimed the bounty ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 20, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Anamanaguchi - Power Supply.
tl;dr: Fun new game. Play it online. Help port ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 16, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks. (Watch out! It's a mindworm.)
Awesome news! My article, ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 13, 2011.
Berkeley, CA - After months of development, we're proud to announce that Gun.io now has the ability for groups to pool their money together to ...
By Rich Jones, Dec 6, 2011.
The theme music for this post is, of course, George Benson - Breezin'. (But it only works in Chrome for now).
...
By Rich Jones, Nov 21, 2011.
The theme music to this post is: Public Enemy - Bring the Noise.
This is a tale of massive waste in a tiny ...
By Rich Jones, Nov 20, 2011.
The theme music to this post is: Virtual Boy - Mass.
Good news, everybody!
The Etherpad Foundation has put up two ...
By Rich Jones, Nov 6, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Tom Waits - Going Out West.
Short post - I'm packing up shop and moving to ...
By Rich Jones, Nov 2, 2011.
I'm so, so sorry. I triple checked the code and tested it three times, but I still accidentally spammed some of our users today. I ...
By Rich Jones, Oct 26, 2011.
The theme music of this post is: Clipse - We Got it For Cheap (NSFW).
This post is intended for young, competent programmers ...
By Rich Jones, Oct 18, 2011.
The theme music for this blog post is: Air - Playground Love.
Python is the best language in the world for interacting with ...
By Rich Jones, Oct 18, 2011.
The theme song for this blog post is Justice - DVNO.
Sorry! It appears our email robot was a little over-zealous with that last ...
By Rich Jones, Oct 5, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Aesop Rock - Attention Span.
Woo! Gun.io finally has email notifications for messaging between users. This ...
By Rich Jones, Sep 28, 2011.
The theme song for this post is: Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars.
By Rich Jones, Sep 26, 2011.
The theme music for this post is: Gil Scott Heron - Inner City Blues.
Good news! The first Gun.io claim has been awarded! It ...
By Rich Jones, Sep 13, 2011.
The theme music for this post is The White Stripes - A Ball and A Biscuit.
Warning: This post may smack of fanboyism. ...
By Rich Jones, Sep 5, 2011.
The theme music to this blog post is Against Me! - Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners.
This is going to be a short ...
By Rich Jones, Sep 5, 2011.
The theme music for this post is Aesop Rock - Daylight.
TL;DR: - Try LightWrite here!
I've been doing more blogging ...
By Rich Jones, Aug 30, 2011.
You're incredibly wealthy, but you don't even know it yet. Bear with me for a moment.
In classical economics, capital is defined as 'already-produced durable ...
By Rich Jones, Aug 30, 2011.
The theme song for this post is Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang.
3 months of hacking, 12000 lines of code and 120 cups ...
By Rich Jones, Aug 12, 2011.
GitHub has been massively transformative for people who write computer software. More people than ever are using version control and I would attribute a lot ...
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