Category Archives: Misc

Notes from the Boulder CTO lunch (11/3/2008)

Although I’m not actually the CTO of Devver, I had the pleasure of attending the Boulder CTO lunch this past Monday since Dan was out of town.
This week, the group had Todd Vernon from Lijit come lead the discussion. Although Todd is currently CEO of Lijit, he was CTO at his former company, Raindance.
The group [...]

iPhone Apps I would like to have

I know everyone has posted a list of the best/must-have iPhone apps. I am sure many people have also posted lists of Apps they would like to have, but it is amazingly fun so I decided I should do it to.
This is my list of apps and solutions I want for the iPhone. They don’t [...]

Boulder.Me: An interesting way to get employees

Boulder has a lot going on in terms of tech startups. A bunch of Boulder startups got together for a pretty interesting plan. A group of startups will be flying 100 interviewees out to Boulder to interview potential employees and let them get a feel for the city. There has already been some pretty good [...]

Looking for your first CS job? Be sure to own your ideas

During my search for my first “real” computer science job during my senior year of college, I compared a lot of factors for various jobs including city, company, project, salary, and benefits. The salary stuff was fun to think about (especially after four years of being a poor college student) and I was looking to [...]

Leaving NetBeans for Emacs as my Ruby Editor

When I first started working with Ruby I used RadRails (which still has the best integrated test runner I have used). Various problems and crashes with RadRails along with exciting features being added to Ruby NetBeans enticed me to switch. I enjoyed NetBeans and some of its features, but the weight of my IDE began slowing [...]

Jason Fried (of 37signals) on building great companies and products

Last Thursday, we had the opportunity to hear a talk from Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals. I had already read some of the 37signals philosophy in Getting Real (although it’s about time for a re-read), but the talk was still totally fascinating. Although in many ways they are similar to the Web 2.0 startups (they [...]

Crappy email filtering on GoDaddy

People are complaining that GoDaddy censored a security site, bid against customers in domain auctions (more), and totally screwed up .me registrations. There’s even an entire site dedicated to exposing GoDaddy’s problems.
We had been lucky enough to never really have any problems with them. Since everything worked for us (even though we hated their UI [...]

Our San Francisco Wrap Up

We had a very exhausting but incredibly useful day last Wednesday. After being invited to give a talk at Pivotal Labs, so we planned a quick trip to San Francisco and arranged other talks with various Ruby developers. We arrived in SF a couple hours before our first meeting, so we headed to a coffee [...]

Devver is on Twitter

After being asked by just about everyone what our company’s Twitter account was, we finally created one. We now have our very own Devver Twitter account. You can follow us to see what we are up to, and comment about Devver on Twitter with the all-powerful @devver symbol. Hopefully we will have some interesting thoughts [...]

Devver’s Devvelopers Devvelopment

Ever since starting our company Devver, I have found it hard to type the words developers and development. I often just end up typing “devvelopers” and “devvelopment” without even blinking an eye. It is just so nice and easy to throw our extra ‘V’ in those words, it rolls off the tongue, so to speak. [...]