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The Wefunder Petition

4 months 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

10 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

10 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

11 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

11 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

~1 year 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

~1 year 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

~1 year 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

~1 year 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)

~1 year 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...