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Changes at IsItJRuby.com

I’ve been ridiculously busy lately. Way too busy. Too busy to sleep, to hit the gym, and definitely maintain yet another website. Unfortunately, IsItJRuby.com didn’t get the love it deserved so I started hunting for someone to take my place.
Alex Coles (@myabc) volunteered and is now the new maintainer. He already shared with me a [...]

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Announcing IsItJruby.com

Ever wondered if a certain Ruby Gem works on JRuby? Wonder no more. I just launched IsItJruby.com, a community-driven Gem compatibility website. If you’re familiar with IsItRuby19.com, you’ll notice a lot of similarities (ie: blatant rip-off). It’s simply because I forked Brightbox’s GitHub project to build isitjruby.com. Brightbox should get [...]

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Lessons learned: How I founded, bootstrapped, grew and sold my web startup

On April 6, 2009, I gave a presentation at MeshU in Toronto, Canada. I was surprised to see how much buzz it generated on Twitter and in the blogosphere. If you missed it, here’s your chance to judge by yourself…
HD Video on iTunes (missing the last 20-25 mins unfortunately):

A quick recap of what I [...]

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