Jul 17
The Montreal Startup Index for July 2008 is out. To my amazement, BOTH my startups are in the top 15!
Ajaxwhois (recently acquired) is at #9, and Defensio is at #13. Oddly enough, Defensio has a lot more traffic than Ajaxwhois. However, API traffic is not reflected in those rankings and since 99.9% of our traffic comes through our API, Defensio is not scoring as high as it should.
I’m sure our friends from Praized will take the list by storm in the coming months. Standout Jobs is also scoring pretty high. Congrats to all!
May 21
Running the tests, 1 failure. Doesn’t look like a failure to me 
Investigating…
1) Failure:
test_new_articles(AnnounceArticleFunctionalTest)
[test/functional/announce_article_test.rb:74:in `test_new_articles'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.5.6/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:19:in `__send__'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.5.6/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:19:in `run']:
<Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:50 +0000> expected but was
<Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:50 +0000>.
Jan 09
It’s official, Network Solutions is stealing domain names from its customers (proof here and here). EVERY domain searched for is automatically registered by the company only seconds later. That’s just one more reason to not trust registrars when you’re looking for the perfect domain name.
If you’re not already aware of that, I’m the author of a nifty little website called Ajaxwhois. It allows you to lookup any domain name (including .ca, .uk and so on) and to perform whois queries on them. All of this is, of course, ajaxified to the fullest extent.
The good thing is that Ajaxwhois does NOT send queries to ANY domain registrar and I certainly won’t steal the domain names you search for.
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