January, 2009


29
Jan 09

Taking Baby Steps

We have an announcement to make… What? No, stop that. It’s not a baby. We are ‘releasing’ the private beta of our website, MeltingFood.

Taking advice from Pierre Francois, the elevator pitch for our website is, “it’s like Facebook, but for food” (just the trusted network part of Facebook – not everything like, ahem, stalking, that comes with social networking sites). But no, this post is not an invitation to join the site – it’s almost the opposite.

Although we do have dreams of extending our 2-person alpha user-base, we’ve made a decision to limit the number of new users to a couple per week starting with whomever happens to be visiting. But if people want to join your site, why restrict them?

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21
Jan 09

My First Coding Dojo

I recently attended my first coding dojo – which was essentially the first time I’d been involved in programming something with others since, well, my university days.

A coding … what? Something Japanese – martial arts sounding. On being invited to this event I attempted to figure out what it was I’d been invited to, but first it gets worse. On the mailing list where this event is organised, I discovered that since no-one had volunteered to do it Kata style, we’d be doing a Randori Dojo. Upon reading the associated link I added Fishbowl discussions to the list of things I have no idea about – I’m sure you can imagine what a long list this has become through my lifetime.

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