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88 Miles mentioned in PCMag

I just noticed that that 88 Miles was mentioned in PCMag, along with a 529 other hints and tips…

BarCamp 2.0 Perth – A resounding success!

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!

88 Miles at BarCamp Perth

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.

Perth Ruby on Rails meetup

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

Addition of a project summary page

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.

How to enabled Saasu.com access

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.

And the results are in…

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.

88 Miles is the Startups Carnival

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!

88 Miles adds OAuth – share your password no more!

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!

Ideas4 – A great night had by all

Wednesday night was was Ideas4 put on by the Australian Web Industry association, and proudly sponsored by 88 Miles. It was a fantastic night of talks from two very talented ladies.

Rachel Cook regaled us with the story of her adventures to Silicon Valley as an angel investor. It would seem that some of the crazy stories that we hear are actually true, and it must have been amazing to be literally rubbing shoulders with the big names of the industry. Although I don’t think the current level of VC and Angel investment is healthy for online applications, it is interesting to see how that side of the web works.

Next up was Lisa Herrod who once again gave a thought provoking presentation of what usability and accessibility should really mean and how it should be handled with in an organisation. As developers we often think that standard compliant code is enough to make a site accessible – where in reality, you can’t predict how an alternative input user will react until you watch them use your site. If you want to view the slides, they are available on slideshare.

A big thankyou to AWIA for the opportunity to sponsor the night, along with the other sponsors. It was fantastic, and I can’t wait for the next one!

PS. Jordan Brock videoed both presentations and has posted them to Vimeo. Which I have also embedded below:

Ideas 4 – Rachel Cook at Ideas4 on Vimeo.

Ideas 4 – Lisa Herrod at Ideas4 on Vimeo..