Posted by Myles Eftos on May 12, 2008 at 07:27
Over the weekend, the Perth geek community participated in the second BarCamp — as unconference-style event, where all of the content is generated by the participants (88 Miles was one of the sponsors. There was a vast array of talks ranging from how to use Twitter to Data portability to using Ruby on Rails and Flex.
It was a fantastic day, with over 80 people braving the wet weather. There was even a couple of visitors for over east!
Giant Dice created Silicon Breach, a persuasive game especially for the day, where players were allocated into Web 2.0 companies, then had to find other “business associates”, and steal ideas from other “companies”. The game was really well received with a large number of “Corporate meetings” through out the day. Corporate espionage has never been so fun.
But the biggest announcemnet of the day was that Western Australia is going to get their very own Web Conference this year. Branded, the Edge of the Web, it will be on the 6th and 7th of November 2008. Head over the the website, and pick the logo!
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, barcamp, conference, edgeoftheweb, perth, timetracking | 2 comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on April 28, 2008 at 20:37
On May 10, 2008 Perth will get to participate in their second BarCamp brought to you by the Australia Web Industry Association. If you haven't heard of BarCamp, it is an ”Unconference“ where there isn't a formal list of speakers — all of the presentations are given by the attendees. It's all very adhoc, and lots of fun.
88 Miles is proudly supporting the event along with Saasu.com, Fasthit.net, Millstream and Scenario Seven.
It promises to be a fantastic day, I will be presenting a Q&A entitled Ask Myles-i the web guy. So if you have any questions about web development — frontend or backend or just want to come along and heckle, then head over to Central Tafe, East Perth and join the fun.
And don't forget to register on the wiki, and to buy a t-shirt.
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, australiawebindustryassociation, barcamp, perth, port80 | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on April 27, 2008 at 11:46
The Beachhouse has had a steady stream of visitors recently, that have been involved with startups. It has been interesting how 88 Miles is considered a “Startup” which hasn't really been sitting well with me — 88 Miles is a product of MadPilot Productions, which isn't really a startup either.
Well, 37 Signals has just run a blog post, that explains why I have been uneasy. I'm not running a startup — I'm running a business. And I agree that people think in terms of startups, not businesses.
So if you are running a startup, make sure you are running a business too.
Posted in Opinion | Tags 88miles, business, startups | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on April 11, 2008 at 15:57
We have just made an announced the second Ruby on Rails Oceania Perth meet up
Details
Ruby on Rails User Group Perth second edition: 24 Apr 2008 at 5:30 until about 7:30 at the Level 2, 90 King St Perth WA
If you are a Perth rubyist, it would be great to see you there, we are going to have talks this time around — I may even speak about OAuth
See you then
Posted in Announcements | Tags on, rails, ruby | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on March 19, 2008 at 22:26
I have just uploaded a small change that adds a project summary page which allows you to get a quick overview of a project, including the full contact details for the company the project belongs to.
The "Edit" and "Delete" project functions have been moved into this summary page, as well. To access, hit "Options" and then "Project Summary"
Let me know what you think.
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, improvments, timetracking | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on March 18, 2008 at 10:40
It would seem a few people have been having some problems enabling web service access for their Saasu.com accounts.
To alleviate this, I have updated the help files to include a more detailed set of instructions. Head over to the new help page to find out more.
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, help, saasu.com, timestracking | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on March 17, 2008 at 17:12
On Saturday I posted that 88 Miles was profiled on the Startups Carnival run by VS Consulting. Well, the results are out now, and 88 Miles came a extremely respectable 4th from 28 entries!
A big congratulations to Richard at Scouta for taking out the first prize and to GoodBarry and Suburb View for rounding out the top three.
Also hats off to OurWishingWell, who shared fourth place with 88 Miles.
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, carnival, startup, timetracking | 1 comment
Posted by Myles Eftos on March 15, 2008 at 10:17
VS Consulting Group has been running an online startups carnival over the past two-weeks, profiling 28 up and coming Australian startups.
Today, 88 Miles is profiled..
It is well worth checking out some of the other entrants, including fellow West Australian Scouta.
A big thanks to Vishal for putting on such an "event" — it really goes to show that the SaaS-o-sphere is alive and well over here in Australia!
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Posted by Myles Eftos on February 22, 2008 at 11:37
Last month, 88 Miles added OpenID, allowing you to use a single sign in with out having to give us your password details. That is great unless you wanted to use our webservice API, which required a username and password.
This is no longer the case!
I have just pushed out an OAuth implementation, which allows 88 Miles user to grant access to 3rd party applications without providing a password! There are a number of pre-built libraries for a number of popular languages, which will make interfacing with 88 Miles easy.
If you are a developer, check out the development page for details
Finer grain user access
As part of this roll out, I also pushed a change which will allow you to select what users have access to particular projects and companies, so rather than an all-in (public) or all-out (private) company or project, you can select a subset of your staff members that will have access.
To do this, select the "Let me choose..." option for visibility when adding a Company or Project (You will need to select "More Details" first if you are on the projects page) and you will see all of you staff appear.
Happy time tracking!
Posted in Announcements | Tags 88miles, oauth, timetracking | no comments
Posted by Myles Eftos on February 18, 2008 at 18:35
I just purchased an ASUS Eee PC and as I was setting up my desktop environment, I realised that after I set up my web browser, I was basically done — because I rely so heavily on SaaS for day-to-day tasks. Not only that, I don't have to worry about whether the tiny 900Mhz processor (under-clocked to 630Mhz) would be up to the task of running my apps. And best all all, because Firefox run in Linux, there is no compatibility issues.
I use (obviously) use 88 Miles for my time tracking, Saasu.com for accounts, Google Apps for office facilities (although, I do admit, I'm still not on Gmail yet). For my RSS, Newsgator has a web version, and I can still get my Twitter feed via their web interface.
This, I think is the best example of why SaaS rocks. In less than 15 minutes, all of the software that I use everyday was ready and waiting for me.
Posted in Opinion | Tags 88miles, asus, eeepc, saas | no comments
