Entries by rich

Got myself a new MacBook Air as the ultimate email and travelling machine but now I've found myself getting interested in Ruby, MySql, Memcached, Rails ...


This is kinda old now but I just learned a bunch from it.. Some great stuff in there.. jQuery Anti-Patterns for Performance & CompressionView more presentations ...


Today marks the first day of my research into using WebSockets for a project that will otherwise pretty much be plagued by a poor user ...


I came across this old quote/poem thing in the bottom of a draw and thought its a great way to look at life and definitely ...


Searching for a string across all of the stored procedures in a database is something that I always forget how to do and then have ...


Recently we put together a version of Litmos that looks and feels like a native iPad app but runs via Safari on the iPad. We were ...


Recently I had to calculate the distance between 2 GPS coordinates. Theres a fair bit of help online about how to do this but I ...


This is a quick preview of the new mobile version of the Litmos LMS running some Articulate Flash content on the Google Nexus One phone.


You can log javascript errors and console messages from your Android device or emulator. To do this you first need to install the Android SDK ...


We've been working on a mobile version of Litmos using jQtouch which works super nice for iPhone but we have had a few issues getting ...


Last night the team attended the cocktail evening and announcement of the finalists for the NZ Hi-Tech awards and we were extremely pleased to be nominated as ...


For 1300 athletes from around globe March 6th 2010 was due to be an epic day. It was the Taupo, New Zealand Ironman race, a ...


Nothing to say here. Just watch the video and you'll see what I mean.


Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the Auckland version of TEDx and it was awesome. In fact I would go as far as saying ...


The Litmos team went along to the opening night of Ruben Guthrie last night.  Now I'm not a critic or reviewer so don't have any flashy ...


Looks like Xero is finally releasing the rest of features required to truly run multi-currency in an efficient way. Xero is awesome in many ways but ...


I use Google apps for mail, calendar and some docs if collaboration is required so when I arrived into the office this morning to find ...


I've been speaking to a bunch of people lately ranging from eager young entrepreneurs to experienced businessmen and one thing that people often have trouble ...


Here's a quick video of some Segway polo and a few lucky people getting to take the Martin Jetpack for a spin at MORGO. ...


I attended the annual MORGO conference last week and had the privilege of hearing Bill Reichert of Garage Ventures speak. Bill had a lot of great ...


The thing I love about many first time entrepreneurs is how blindly optimistic they are that their venture will be a huge success. They're bright eyed, ...


Just found out that I managed to snag a sponsored ticket to the MORGO conference which kicks off in 2 weeks time. Awesome! It's an invite ...


The success of the iPod has been largely attributed to ease of access and management of new and existing music via iTunes. Would it be ...


Been thinking about doing this blog for a while, like 2-3 years! ha.. anyway I have finally decided to kick it off. What can you expect ...