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Not much news today. Most of the day was spent on client work. I had the fun task of calming down everyones nerves - there are still two deadlines to meet this week, before we can fully embark on building the Twitter app that I need for my day to day work. I thought about features and design while on the train today and had tons of ideas. I think I have pared them down enough to actually being able to deliver something on friday. This turns out to be a really difficult task, there is so much that we “could” do (and things that would make the app really shine). I have decided on the bare minimum of features (with an eye towards extending them) ...

A new web site, that we developed launched today: ZermattSoundz.ch, the companion site to Europe’s highest open-air concert, April 18/19. It features Eisblume, Ich + Ich, Materia and Die Fantastischen 4. It was designed by our partners Création and developed with Radiant on Ruby on Rails. Well done, team!

The last few months have been furious. Not only have we moved to the new offices, but Keith Bingman has joined us as on a regular basis, and Andrea Szabo is our intern for the next 18 months, while she’s becoming an application developer. Quite a few projects have been made, a new website is on it’s way. We’ve had a lot of client work and more is yet to come, but we thought, it might be fun to do something for ourselves for a change. ...

We have been moving our clients websites to our own co-located server over the last few weeks and have had mostly good experiences doing so. Yesterday however, there was trouble in InVisible hosting land, and we had a couple of hours downtime on one of the websites (of course the one with the most traffic…) So - here’s a short post-mortem and the things we did to keep this from happening in the future… ...

It took a long time, but the publisher of my book and my company finally agreed on a method of selling the PDF of my Rails book not only on CD (and only to people in germany) but - as it should be - as a downloadable version. I have setup a small shop at https://rails-praxis.myshopify.com/ with a standard Shopify template and using Fetch.app to handle the digital downloads. This is a temporay solution until the publisher can handle digital downloads (which means, that it will be in place for quite some time I guess)… ...

On Halloween Friday was the Somesso conference on social media in Rüschlikon. After last weeks Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, this was a fresh and new conference put on by Arjen Strijker. There were quite a few bloggers covering the confernce, the usual slew of pictures taken and of course a lot of chatter on twitter. I was invited by Arjen to do a short pitch on Headshift. As others have noticed: Es waren einige Agenturen darunter und einige davon waren bereits über 5 Jahre alt. Ob man sich dann noch als Startup bezeichnen darfn? (ricdes) ...