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Category: Technology

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 [...]

Running Merb on JRuby 1.2 and Glassfish 2.1

So I’ve been trying to get Merb running on JRuby a good part of last night. I don’t know jack about Java, so this has been a little bit more challenging than it should have been. Most (if not all) of the tutorials I found were old and obsolete, so I decided to throw out [...]