Engine Yard Associate Partner

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Thanks to the good folks at Engine Yard for inviting Bust Out Solutions to be an Associate Development Partner. We recently started using Engine Yard for hosting and so far their service has been great. We’ll be working on an experimental JRuby project as well as regular client work using Ruby on Rails.

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Google Suggests

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Google Suggest is the search engine’s feature that auto-completes the text as you type in search terms. There’s been a number of funny suggestions discovered, and even a website dedicated to them. Bust Out Solutions is in good company when it comes to suggestions from Google: fraud, burlesque, mafia wars, bail bonds… Wonderful.

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Top Underreported Tech Stories of 2009

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One of my favorite quotes by Ruby on Rails founder David Heinemeier Hanson was at Minnebar 2007 when somebody asked him if Ruby on Rails was ready for the “Enterprise.” His response was something like, “To me ‘Enterprise’ is just steak dinners, strip clubs, and expense accounts.” (Anybody have the exact quote?) Whether you hold [...]

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Heroku Success Story

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We recently moved bestbuyideax.com to Heroku, a Ruby hosting platform that runs in the Amazon cloud. We’ve been incredibly happy with their platform, as well as their service. Thanks to Oren Teich for writing up a success story about Best Buy IdeaX.

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Minor Re-design Before the Big Bang

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It’s often the case for anybody in the industry to neglect their own site as they focus most of their time and energy on client work. We’re not exempt from that at all. The Bust Out website has finally gotten a minor, rushed, temporary face lift while we work on a total relaunch of our [...]

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Zompire Dracularius

Dan Grigsby’s SEO competition at the University of Minnesota is back. This year, the word is “Zompire Dracularius,” and just like last year I am honoring link requests from the first students to contact me. Good luck to these sites: zompire-dracularius.com sonhuynh.net/zompire-dracularius zombiedracolaris.com zompiredraculariuszompiredracularius.com zompiredracularius.net sites.google.com/site/andymgmt3010 zompires.org

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Snow Leopard, Office 2004 and #$@%! Characters

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On the off chance this may help someone… My mother recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seemed that the upgrade went smoothly, but a couple of days later, she had trouble opening certain .doc, .ppt, and .xls files with Office 2004. The error messages were obscure. Messages from Excel complained about not [...]

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Best Buy Idea X Launches

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I’m pleased to announce the launch of Best Buy Idea X, a website where you can share, vote for, and discuss ideas that will help make Best Buy a better company. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and runs in Amazon’s Compute Cloud. We’re far from done with the site. There is already [...]

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