http://www.poweredbygeek.com Web Design and Application Development Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:08:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, now he is really showing us up. Click here for the full article. http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/16/dan-on-rails-part-three/ In Dan's successful attempt to outshine all the other PBG bloggers, may we present "Trial By Fire - Part 2" Dan's latest installment on moving to rails. Click here for the full article http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/16/dan-on-rails-part-two/ In an attempt to keep up with Will, Dan has started a series of articles outlining the things he "wish he knew when he was starting with rails". Good read for anyone making the jump: Starting off as a Rails developer I ran into some problems coming from a Java/C++ background. ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/13/dan-on-rails/ Will posted a new article over on his blog in his continuing effort to outshine us all: Full text indexing is an amazing feature. Instead of incredibly costly LIKE comparisons, an index can be created by the RDBMS which contains the full text of the column, or table, in question. ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/13/more-mysql-full-text-indexing-and-rss-feeds/ So to show us all up, Will has hit the ground running with a blog post about MySQL backups: So my first project with PBG is to get a more automated backup system going. I find out that they’re basically using cpanel and other variants to do manual backups on ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/13/will-on-backups/ Powered By Geek is happy to welcome William Harris to the team. Will has been working with our team unofficially answering SQL questions that stump us and attempting to enforce best practices in our projects. Now in a more official role, Will is going to be our "SQL" guy. Welcome Will ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/10/12/welcoming-will/ Why? Why Not! http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/09/03/pbg-wallpapers/ Good question. It's because we've been scouring our respective metropolitan areas for every last cup of coffee to keep us awake long enough to give you iStalkr. Basically, here's what it does: you generate a lot of RSS. Your flickr page, your twitter page, your last.fm, your own blog... they ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/04/19/why-havent-you-guys-posted-in-like-forever/ It has been a rather exciting week. We released Long Time Lost into public beta and got a couple diggs and a link from Lifehacker and in 2 days we have 1000 registered users and a lot of great feedback. We are moving relatively fast with fixing problems (fortunately only ... http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2007/01/04/long-time-lost-public-beta-1000-users-in-2-days/ The latest article from Powered By Geeker Lynn Wallenstein on the use for minimalistic design and feature sets in web design and applications. http://lwallenstein.poweredbygeek.net/2006/12/05/dont-kiss-me-i-need-features/Â http://www.poweredbygeek.com/2006/12/05/dont-kiss-me-i-need-features/