A few days ago, our code repository server froze. Nothing a restart couldn’t solve, but this was the fourth time this month. The computer has been running continuously for a couple years, with a few developers constantly committing and pulling changes, uploading files, etc., and it had apparently had enough. Seeing this as an opportunity [...]
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Smibs visits Silicon Valley: The real-time web is coming on fast
Last Friday I flew down to San Francisco to attend the TechCrunch CrunchUp conference. This year the conference topic was ‘The Real Time Stream’. The conference was aimed to capture the opportunities and latest developments arising from the the rapidly growing amount of real-time data that is generated on micro-blogging services like twitter, friendfeed and [...]
New technology is always fun!
The new interface is up, and we’ve all had a chance to catch our breath from an exciting update. I thought it would be a good chance for me to talk about some of the neat technology that has been added to the Smibs Network and Doorbell.
One of the more obvious changes are utilities. [...]
TEC Venture Prize awards luncheon
Despite what is often portrayed in the media, entrepreneurs are seldom “lone wolvesâ€. This point was made obvious when I attended theTEC Edmonton’s Venture Prize Award Luncheon, it takes a community to support and inspire innovation in an entrepreneur. Business leaders and representatives from Western Economic Diversification Canada, Alberta Research Council, Economic Development Edmonton, the [...]
Smibs on Code: Filtering user data
There is a major security concern when it comes to displaying text provided by a user. Ruby on Rails does a good job of keeping your MySQL code sanitized, but web browsers are still a source of concern. It is VERY easy for a hacker to write HTML or JavaScript into a text field. You [...]
