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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreIt’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 [...]
Read MoreI’m pleased to announce the launch of the website for the St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, a New York City-based network of hospitals and rehabilitation centers aimed at helping children from around the world in need of world-class medical and educational attention. Bust Out Solutions was brought in to design and engineer a site [...]
Read MoreI’m pleased to announce the re-launch of Giftag, the universal wish list where you can pick anything from any website and share your wish lists with your friends. Giftag is a Best Buy project that started off as a prototype in Drupal. I had the pleasure of joining the team to help re-platform the application [...]
Read MoreYou saw the shirt at DEMO 08, now you want one of your own. Announcing the grand opening of the Bust Out Solutions Shop! The store is built using the Shopify platform with integrated payment processing by PayPal Website Payments Pro. We recommend this combination for any small to mid-sized business that wants to sell [...]
Read MoreBest Buy announced their Remix platform that provides open APIs. Outside Web developers can now draw on any information from the Best Buy Web site – product specs, prices, photos, user reviews &ndash and port it over to their own sites. Pretty big news for a large retailer, but hopefully an indicator of the direction [...]
Read MoreGary, Steve, and Curtis showed off Giftag at the DEMO conference on emerging technologies. Gary, like the studly champ that he is, also sported the soon-to-be available Bust Out t-shirt. Giftag is available now, and the t-shirts will be available shortly.
Read MoreFor the past several months I’ve spent some time working with the team at Best Buy on Giftag, an online gift registry and social sharing application. Giftag has recently been gaining the attention of the larger media, and tomorrow Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt are presenting Giftag at DEMO 08. Congrats to the Giftag team [...]
Read MoreBust Out Solutions has moved! New office space is located in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Come check it out!
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