Newsflash July 17th, 2008
Playing catchup a bit, things have been hectic since the California move. Seems about time for a quick updated.
I am now a software engineer for Plinky, Inc. I am pretty excited about the position and what we are working on, but I can't say much more than that at present.
Unfortunately, for now, feedish has been put on the back burner while I reevaluate my approach.
Fortunately, I've become the de facto maintainer of the couchdb adapter for the DataMapper Ruby ORM. There is still plenty of work left there, but I'm pleased to be making advances quite regularly.
I have a couple other projects in mind/in the works, but nothing I can really show at the moment. Just thought is was about time to make a 'proof of life' post.
feedish private beta March 23rd, 2008
UPDATE: I let the next few users in today, email now and I'll get you in as soon as I can. Space is limited...
I'm not quite ready to roll out the feedish beta, but I'm getting really close. If you are interested in getting in, email me at monki+invite@geemus.com.
Much thanks to caboo.se for the inspiration to do beta signups this way. I wanted to have a list of people to bring in when it was ready, but I am too wrapped up in polishing and features to worry about a beta signup system.
Read it! October 2nd, 2007
Progress continues nicely on my feed aggregator. Also, of great note is that I landed the domain name I wanted for it (feedish.com). It currently is just hosting a kind of proof of concept as I flesh out functionality and look into getting a designer on board. I'll write more about that, but I wanted to say something about getting the domain name, since the whole process went amazingly smoothly.
I had found to my dismay that feedish.com was already registered to someone else and had been for quite some time. I also noticed, however, that it had simply been a parked domain for quite some time. I approached the owner and asked them about the possibility of acquiring the name. After ensuring that my service wouldn't conflict with their own, similarly named service, they simply allowed me to have the name.
The kind souls that let me have my new favorite url are the guys behind feed.us. It is a centralized CMS system that lets you setup content in one location and then pull content to any number of other hosts. I have been a bit too swamped to do much with it, but it seems like it would be really useful for maintaining multiple remote sites. Anyway, thanks again guys, it is much appreciated.
Not dead! September 25th, 2007
I've been extraordinarily busy with various ventures, but it seems like about time to check and and start posting a bit more regularly about what I'm working on.
Most notably my main gig with ImThere continues to go really well for everyone involved. We just pushed some updates over the course of the last week and the boss wrote an article about how we got to where we are that landed us on vitamin. I was glad to help out editing it and helping push out a number of the updates to get us there.
I am also continuing to work on my own projects and my attempt at a feed aggregator(I am calling it feedish) is really coming along. Still a number of things I need to figure out how I want to approach, but the main functionality is there. I'll post more about what I have cooked up there. I think it will be a breath of fresh air in what seems like an area that is rather lacking in innovation. More as I figure it out.