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Our Work

We can help your company from designing and developing prototypes to completely building your million dollar startup idea entirely from scratch. Like what you see here? Take a peek at the services that we offer.

Tanga Shipped
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Tanga is a community that aims to keep your mind and your wallet happy with deals, prizes, and puzzles.

Technologies

  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Memcached
  • RSpec Testing
  • PostgreSQL
  • HAML/SASS
  • Cross-browser HTML/CSS
  • RJS/AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • Prototype.js
  • Scriptaculous

Services

  • Web Development
  • Web/Graphic Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Usability Evaluations
  • Systems/Database Design
  • Performance Testing
GroupieGuide Shipped 3/09
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As a result of not finding a service that fit our needs for our own groups (a simple customizable group page based around a calendar of events), we built our own.

Technologies

  • Cross-browser HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Git

Services

  • Database Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Test and Behavior Driven Design
  • Web/Graphic Design
Brash Insight Shipped
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Brash Insight lets advertisers use Feedback Advertising.

What is Brash Insight

Feedback Advertising is a patented rich-media technology for online advertisers and interactive ad agencies who demand superior display ad results.

Technologies

  • Rails
  • MySQL
  • Chef

Services

  • Rails and database design
ZoolahScribe Shipped
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ZoolahScribe lets newspapers and magazines easily sell subscriptions online

Technologies

  • Rails
  • PostgreSQL

Services

  • Rails and database design
Healthy or Not Shipped 12/08
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Healthy or Not came to us needing a solution to move away from the Blogger platform for branding purposes. Our solution was to migrate their content to the Wordpress platform and create a custom Wordpress theme.

What is Healthy or Not

A blog about discovering and uncovering myths on what is actually healthy and what is not.

Technologies

  • Cross-browser HTML/CSS
  • Git

Services

  • Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Information Architecture
  • Web/Graphic Design
  • Wordpress Theme
Children International Summer Villages Shipped
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A web application for connecting volunteers with event coordinators

What is Children International Summer Villages

We helped CISV build a communication platform that lets volunteers register for events, and take tests that qualify them for certain roles at the events.

Technologies

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Cucumber
  • RSpec

Services

  • Database Design
  • Coding
What Do Ya Think Shipped Beta 03/09
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A Facebook application for asking people stuff.

What is What Do Ya Think

What Do Ya Think is a Facebook application for asking your friends very important questions.

Technologies

  • Cross-browser HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Git
  • Facebook FBML/FBJS

Services

  • Database Design
  • Facebook App Development
  • Test and Behavior Driven Design
  • Web/Graphic Design
Puget Sound Regional Council Shipped
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Created a content management system (CMS) for the Puget Sound Regional Council's website.

What is Puget Sound Regional Council

We used the Radiant CMS system to let PSRC manage their website. We added numerous features to Radiant, such as a Draft -> Publish system, an Event Registration that processes payments, and more. We implemented the PSRC-provided mockups for the site design.
Dancehop Shipped
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Developed a Social Network for dancers
DailyCaption Shipped Beta 09/08
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A Facebook application for captioning photos.

What is DailyCaption

DailyCaption is a Facebook application (Beta) that takes Flickr photos out of context through caption contests. Everyday a new Flickr photo is generated for members to contribute new captions and rate others.

Technologies

  • Cross-browser HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Git
  • Facebook FBML/FBJS

Services

  • Database Design
  • Facebook App Development
  • Test and Behavior Driven Design
  • Web/Graphic Design
Let's Improve Transportation Shipped 09/07
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A National Science Foundation funded research project for improving transportation in the puget sound region.

Technologies

  • HTML/CSS
  • Object Oriented JavaScript
  • Prototype.js
  • Scriptaculous
  • Java Server Pages
  • AJAX (via DWR)
LunchFilter Shipped Beta 03/07
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A small application with a slick interface for helping you decide where to eat in selected neighborhoods.
Segment7 Blog Shipped
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Segment7 is a popular Ruby Blog by Eric Hodel.
Fixie Shipper In Progress
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You need to ship things from your website? The Fixie Shipper Web Service lets you ship packages, track them, print shipping labels, and do returns.

What is Fixie Shipper

You download and install it on your webserver. Libraries for accessing the web service will be provided for multiple programming languages. Stay tuned for updates!

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Open Source

Taking advantage of open source projects allow us to rocket propel our development process. By reusing as much code as possible, we don't have to reinvent the wheel at the start of each new project which ultimately saves you money. Below is our contributions to open source (more to come).

Monkey Charger Shipped
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MonkeyCharger is an Open Source RESTful Rails application that lets you securely store credit card information.
Fixie Whitelister Shipped 11/08
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Fixie Whitelister is a Rails plugin that automatically sanitizes form input on submission time.

What is Fixie Whitelister

This will let you avoid having potentially harmful data inserted into your database.
Fixie Verifications Shipped 12/08
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Fixie Verifications is a Rails plugin that lets you easily add emailed verification codes to your ActiveRecord models.
Fixie Shrinker Shipped 11/08
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Fixie Shrinker is a Rails plugin that smartly compresses your javascript and css while developing, so there is no need to do any compression on the server.
Fixie Jobs Shipped 09/08
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Fixie Jobs is an Open Source Ruby library that lets you easily queue up work to do later.
Fixie Shipped 10/08
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See how we use the open source Ruby 'Webby' framework to create our semi-dynamic website.
Evri Ruby API Shipping 12/08
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We wrote a Ruby library that wraps the RESTful web services provided by Evri. It will be released in December, 2008.

What is Evri Ruby API

You can use this library to easily access all the data provided by Evri. Evri hired Fixie to build this library. Available as a Ruby Gem.

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RadiantCMS Event Registration Extension Shipping 12/08
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A Radiant Event Registration Extension that lets Radiant users create events and lets people register for those events. Payment for the registration can be provided via credit card or check.

What is RadiantCMS Event Registration Extension

Will be released soon. See it in action!

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