This is my year in review blog post, and oh what an exciting blog post it’s going to be!
2011 was a good year of blogging for me. I managed to kick my addiction of compulsively checking Google Analytics to see how many hits I was getting and instead was able to focus more on just getting words on the screen and out into the interwebs.
With that being said I did crack open Google Analytics today to do a post-mortem of the year and I must say I’m very pleased!
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What is on my mind? What is something I want to write about that I don’t usually write about.
I could write about the Rails app. I guess it’s about time. I haven’t written about it yet at all. For all anyone would know I’ve never ever touched Ruby or Ruby on Rails.
That’s simply not true. I’ve talked about my Best And Worst project on here before. About how I refactored it from a web2py project to a Ruby on Rails project. That was my first time really touching Ruby or Rails in any protracted manner.
So hey folks, I want to finally share with you a project I’ve been working on for the past 3 months or so. The project’s working name is ‘Couplytuna’, so named after a particularly creative hyper episode.
What is Couplytuna? It is a place to find date ideas. As simple as straightforward as that. Intended mostly for those already in a relationship, Couplytuna aims to make the sometime difficult question ‘what should we do tonight?’ a sinch.
Built on Rails 3.1 this marks my second foray into Ruby land and my first time being exposed to Rails’ new asset pipeline (which is in sore need of stronger documentation).
What else is there to say about the app? It will be crowd sourced so that ideas are generated by its users, letting people upvote their favorites and downvote the poor ideas.
I plan to launch with a simple baseline of features, including sign up and sign in through Facebook or e-mail, the ability to add a couple of meta information to each idea to make filtering easier, and I’m still on the fence on whether to include a commenting system for the first release. The main factor at this point is definitely the development cost. So, we’ll see.
One last exciting feature of the site is something I’m currently calling a ‘tunatwist’. A tunatwist is something that can be added to an idea to make it more exciting and fun. For example, if one idea is to ‘go out for a night of bowling’ its tunatwist could be to ‘have a drink after every strike’. The goal being of course to take an already fun idea and make it even better.
I’m hoping to launch a beta of Couplytuna in January. Right now the two main roadblocks are the commenting system and a new and improved name for the site.
If you have any ideas for possible names please leave them in the comments or send me an email. All suggestions are welcome, only one will be chosen.
Thank you!
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Stay tuned! (Like a TV)
I love shopping at Fab.com. The entire experience – from browsing to opening the package – is enjoyable and fun.
Like other flash sale sites Fab.com has a daily newsletter that lets me know what sales are going on that day. Coupled with their app I’m usually hit with a double whammy each morning. E-mail and notification letting me know that I can get my shop on. I’ve thought about stopping the e-mails however I use them as a reminder to browse when I sit down to my computer.
Today it is my great pleasure to present to you the redesign of my freelance web design company, Wolff Technologies! This redesign has been in the works for just over a month, going through quite a few changes in concept and approach.
I’ve decided to go back to a design style that I find quite beautiful when done correctly – minimalism. This design approach incorporates both the space used by the content as well as the space left between the content. Through the wholesome union of these two components it is my belief that it leaves the viewer with a sense of clarity and richness without causing confusion or overwhelmingness.
I believe I’ve achieved this goal with my redesign. Although I already have more improvements in mind to add, I felt it was ready to go live in its current state. So if you’re looking for a website designer then look no further than Wolff Technologies! We got you covered 
A little while ago I wrote a post that had an idea for a list of ‘best things’ and ‘worst things’. It was a quirky idea based off then-recent observations of my over-use of the phrases ‘the best!’ and ‘the worst!’.
What’s interesting to me is the fact that those phrases haven’t gone away. Although the frequency in which they’re said has decreased, they seem to have crept into my daily way of talking – and I’m not alone. I see and hear other people using those phrases – ‘the best’ and ‘the worst’ – all the time now, leading me to believe that I’m not unique in their use and far from being their creator.
For those who know me I am a computer enthusiast and programmer. I have recently decided it was time for me to learn a new programming language, namely Python. I’ve been reading a lot of theoretical books on how to program Python, however there is something that can’t be taught without actually programming.
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I had a very snowy Tuesday morning. After going to bed at an unusually early hour I woke up at two odd intervals during my sleep. First time was at 2am when I have the barest memory of making myself a piece of bread and butter. Second time was at 8am and resulted in an hour spent reading about web2py.
After I woke up and started my day I began scouring through music blogs in hopes of finding a new sound to start the snowy day. Thanks to the keen ears of Aurgasm I was greeted to the breezy, mellow tunes of Nicole Simone.
I was hoping to update and post her music earlier today but I didn’t have time. In any case, her sounds will lull you into the night. Her EP comes out later this year.
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Also: I found a web app that lets you type in the name of an artist and their song. It then computes the tempo of the song and graphs any deviations in BPM. This gets you a pretty good guess if the song’s beat was made by a drummer or a machine. It’s called In Search of the Click Track and I think it’s awesome.