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The Wefunder Petition

10 days ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Kickstarter is awesome for funding creative projects. It’s one of my favorite startups at the moment, and it’s important. I lurves it. But I...

Building Android Apps with Mirah and Pindah

7 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I gave a talk earlier today at the Beijing Ruby group today about my experiences building native Android applications with Mirah and Pindah. Although I...

Geeks on a Train

7 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Geeks on a Train starts today! This afternoon I’m leaving Dalian, Liaoning, China for a 10-day journey across China’s tech ecosystem with a...

Rails Rumble Alumni Archive Project

7 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
2011 has been a busy year so far, full of interesting contract work, side projects, research for the next startup biz, upcoming travel plans, and not-so-fun...

Song Lyrics Without the Suck

8 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Over the past few years I’ve been involved with a number of music-related web projects, including Loudwerkz, DMOD (RIP), and Ink19. Although I make...

Startup Workaway - Coworking in Costa Rica

9 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Are you a hacker? Working on a startup? How about coworking and networking with other people who are building inspiring new stuff? Sure you do. And who...

Startup Workaway - Coworking in Costa Rica

9 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Are you a hacker? Working on a startup? How about coworking and networking with other people who are building inspiring new stuff? Sure you do. And who...

Easy Rails OAuth Integration Testing

11 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
A long while back I wrote a post about Twitter auth integration testing using Cucumber. Back then OAuth was just beginning to see widespread use, but it...

Easy Rails OAuth Integration Testing

11 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
A long while back I wrote a post about Twitter auth integration testing using Cucumber. Back then OAuth was just beginning to see widespread use, but it...

Better AWS Access Control with IAM (and Fog)

11 months ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Amazon are the undisputed kings of the developer plumbing revolution. EC2 and S3 are so ubiquitious to deploying web applications that sometimes it seems...