News
88 Miles in the Business Review Weekly's top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
Posted on 19/06/2008 in News — No comments
Business Review Weekly released it's list of top 100 Australian web 2.0 lists today and 88 Miles came in at number 58!
There are some pretty cool apps on the list, including big players like Atlassian and of course our good friends Saasu.com, Scouta and Norg Media.
Rounding up the Perth list we have The broth, Minit, Buzka, Gooruze.
Congratulations to everyone who made the list!
An online version of the list can be seen here.
MadPilot's new(ish) phone number
Posted on 06/06/2008 in News — No comments
Now that I've relocated back into my home office, I've decided to revert back to my old VoIP number: +61-8-6424-8234.
Although Skype was doing a perfectly good job at taking and making phone calls, the NetGear SPH101 Skype phone wasn't really up to the task (the battery life isn't that great and the call quality can leave a little to be desired) and I've got a perfectly good Cisco 7905 sitting here, which has much better voice clarity.
I'll redirect my Skype number to the “new” number in the interim to give you all a bit of time to update your records. I'll still leave the Skype phone around to Skype-to-Skype calls too I think.
It's a business, not a startup
Posted on 27/04/2008 in News — 2 comments
The Beachhouse has had a steady stream of visitors recently, that have been involved with startups. It has been interesting how 88 Miles is considered a “Startup” which hasn't really been sitting well with me — 88 Miles is a product of MadPilot Productions, which isn't really a startup either.
Well, 37 Signals has just run a blog post, that explains why I have been uneasy. I'm not running a startup — I'm running a business. And I agree that people think in terms of startups, not businesses.
So if you are running a startup, make sure you are running a business too.
Perth Ruby on Rails meetup
Posted on 11/04/2008 in News — No comments
We have just made an announced the second Ruby on Rails Oceania Perth meet up
Details
Ruby on Rails User Group Perth second edition: 24 Apr 2008 at 5:30 until about 7:30 at the Level 2, 90 King St Perth WA
If you are a Perth rubyist, it would be great to see you there, we are going to have talks this time around — I may even speak about OAuth
See you then
MadPilot Productions blog, online payments and code
Posted on 06/04/2008 in News — No comments
I was making some updates to the MadPilot Productions website, and I thought it time to move the News section into a proper blog. Now that MadPilot is well and truly back in the swing of things, much more news should be coming through, so it makes sense for me to be able publish it — It also means that you, my loving audience can post comments and keep up a dialogue.
As a challenge, I decided to write the blog engine from scratch in Ruby on Rails and after a weekend of hacking, here we are! I have used a number of the fantastic gems that are out there to create a pretty full featured blogging engine, which I am planning on releasing…
Community Code
The pre-announcement of the blog engine is a pretty good spot to announce the launch of MadPilot Code. From time-to-time, if I think that a piece of code may be of use to the public, I will release it here. To start with, I have released the Twitteresce project — a J2ME mobile twitter application and saasu_connect — a Rails library for accessing your accounts on Saasu.com.
MadPilot Code is running on Trac, so please submit bug reports if you find anything.
Pay your invoices online
Finally, if you are a MadPilot customer, you can now pay your invoices online via credit card. All you need is you email address and your invoice number, oh and the MadPilot Payment page. Please note, that credit card transactions do incur a 3% surcharge
So, don't forget to add the new MadPilot blog to your RSS reader, so you don't miss out on all the latest MadPilot news, and don't be shy — leave a message!