Monthly Archives: January 2011

Thinking of Starting a Web Business, You Can Do It

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Michael Koby

Do you say something like “Man it would be great is someone would create a site that does [fill in the blank]” a lot? Do you find yourself coming up with great ideas only to forget them a couple of hours later? Have you ever told an idea to your friends, have them tell you it’s horrible, only to see the exact product a year later released by someone else?

Well, do something about it. Continue reading →

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Vim, RubyTest, & RSpec

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Michael Koby

If you use the Vim editor (or one of it’s counterparts like gVim), use the RubyTest Vim Plugin, and you use RSpec for some of your testing then you might run into a problem that I was experiencing where it … Continue reading →

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Testing in Rails, It’s Important

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Michael Koby

Over the course of 2010 I spent most of my off time working on my side project, Just for Bands. Specifically the first application to come from Just for Bands known as LiveShow. The LiveShow application was written in Ruby on Rails with the plan to deploy it to Heroku (a successful plan I might add). But the main point of this post is the idea of doing Test Driven Development (or TDD) in Ruby on Rails and how it allowed my partner and I to build an app quickly. Continue reading →

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Ship It

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Michael Koby

With the launch of LiveShow by Just for Bands last week, the stress of getting something done and pushed for public consumption is only half done. Having actually “shipped” a working product, I understand that it is the larger (and harder) half. Continue reading →

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LiveShow Ships

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Michael Koby

Yep, today my partner Erick and I announced that LiveShow, the first Just for Bands app was ready for the world’s viewing. It took a year’s worth of programming time at home after work and on weekends, learning a new programming language, learning a new web framework for writing web applications, designing a data model, and figuring out where the app should live. But, it’s officially shipped as of today around 1:30pm. Continue reading →

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