We’ve been using Capistrano to deploy Afrigator to our various servers for a while now. I can seriously not complain or say anything bad about Capistrano. Thing is, I’m more familiar with Python than I am with Ruby, thus for me it just makes more sense for me to use Fabric. Here is a small [...]
MIH Internet Africa has a very, very strong mobile web focus. I’m learning tons and tons of new things every day simply by talking to people. We also had the pleasure of meeting with Gabrielle Rosario who is a Mobile Marketing expert. She knows her shit, thats for sure! Now here is a couple of [...]
Right, this feature actually used to be (in some obscure way) in Afrigator, but was dropped. Don’t ask why. Seriously don’t. When we ran Afrigreater, Jeanette Verster said she’s love a way to find friends in Afrigator, but the feature was lacking. Well, now its back and SO much better! Let’s say I’m searching for [...]
Late last night I finished the Afrigator ping feature. This works well, provided you subscribed to Afrigator with your own feed and not a third party feed like Feedburner or Feedproxy. Here is the problem with Feedburner. Your Feedburner feed updates in approximately 30 minutes after you’ve written a new blog post. This means that [...]
Like with the “remember me” functionality, this is one that should have been in Afrigator since the start. I do apologize for the slight 20 month delay. :P The first round of pinging is now available. If you have written a new blog post, you can go to Afrigator, log in and in your dashboard [...]
Some time last week Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site, was hit by the corrupt file system demon. The problem is not only did their database server’s file system go belly up, but their backup server was corrupted by the same demon. Trust me, I do feel sorry for the dudes. It is a sickening feeling [...]
In our quest to become a better Afrigator, the one thing that was missing on a lot of people’s list is quite a daft thing. Daft as in “dudes, how can you NOT have this?”. We never had a Remember Me function which meant users have to log in every time they get to Afrigator. [...]
There are a bunch of new features and improvements in development on Afrigator. I think we should call Afrigator “New improved Afrigator” one of these days. “New Improved” is the stupidest term ever, IMHO. How can something new be improved? Thats dumb. I digress. We brought back the tag cloud. We took the tag cloud [...]
Since we’ve moved to Cape Town, we’ve been located slap bang in the middle of the city bowl. We were happy and enjoyed most of it. The traffic was a BITCH, but hey… one of those things. Today we moved to new offices. Very trendy, modern offices. For some inexplicable reason they placed us slap [...]
Friday’s MIH Internet year end do was great! Apart from having great booze, tasty snacks and good friends, the discussions happening was very, very intriguing. It was a supergeek event. (For the record: This is SnowgooseSA‘s Twitter avatar and I haven’t asked for permission, so Snowgoose, if you protest, I’ll remove this!) PHPlumber was giving [...]