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Shazam vs Mashup Music

November 14, 2008 – 10:21 am

I had a funny thought while listening to some music recently and decided I needed to do battle between music mashups and music recognition software.
Shazam is a pretty cool app on the iPhone to help you recognize and find music, it uses the microphone and listens to whatever music is near the iPhone. Shazam then [...]

By Dan |

Sending Files with EventMachine

October 8, 2008 – 8:22 am

Devver has to keep the developer’s environment synchronized with our servers. To do this our Devver client sends all of the project files to our servers. We currently have a EventMachine client transfer files over SSL to a EventMachine server. We went through various stages and methods of sending files with EventMachine before finding a [...]

By Dan |

Friday fun: What the hell is up with ABC News photos?

July 25, 2008 – 8:35 am

ABC News is a respectable news organization, right? I thought so too. That’s why I’m mystified by the abundance of shockingly bad Photoshopped pictures on their website.
It’s been my hobby to collect these visual Frankensteins for the past few months. They range from simply poor in quality:

to tacky:

to just plain strange:

There are also not particularly [...]

By Ben |

Devver in the Boulder County Business Report

July 18, 2008 – 2:14 pm

Devver along with all the other TechStars 2008 teams were featured in the Boulder County Business Report. It is a nice write up to give a little introduction of each of this years companies.
Devver in the BCBR

By Dan |

A new Ruby tools survey

June 25, 2008 – 10:38 am

We’re trying to get a better feel for what types of web-service tools would be useful to Ruby hackers. You can help us out by filling out our survey. Thanks!

By Ben |

Firefox 3 is hella fast …

June 17, 2008 – 2:13 pm

Maybe it’s just because quite a few of my plugins (notably Firebug) aren’t supported (and therefore deactivated), but browsing my usual sites with FF3 is noticably faster. Download it now.

By Ben |