Posts Filed in "iBegin"

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Apr

Filed in iBegin, iBegin Labs with 2 comments |

We have pushed out iBegin Share 2.3 (and wp plugin 1.2 to go along with it). It’s a pretty mild update, that includes one pretty cool new feature: Statistics. We’ve built in some quick stats to let you see how people are using the share plugin, on your blog, or standalone (although the WP integration […]

4

Apr

Filed in iBegin Labs with no comments |

We released new versions of iBegin Share and the Wordpress plug-in this morning. These are critical updates to solve display inconsistencies across browsers. You can grab them both over at the labs.
If you don’t know what iBegin Share is, it’s a simple tool which allows you to “share” pages of your website. It’s very similar […]

2

Apr

Filed in Django, PostgreSQL, iBegin with 3 comments |

Last week I made the decision to begin the conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Well, more of a benchmark conversion, but none the less. So we begin the installation..
I installed PostgreSQL server, version 8.2, painlessly both locally and on our staging server. I then installed psycopg2 via Python setuptools. Nice, quick and easy, right? Segmentation […]

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Mar

Filed in Django, iBegin, iBegin Labs with no comments |

We’ve launched our first new site over at iBegin, and it’s called Places. It’s an experiment in mapping informal spaces, or outlining landmarks and other types of locations that you wouldn’t normally find on a map. The framework was built in about a week, and is powered by Django, MySQL, the Jinja templating engine, and […]

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Mar

Filed in iBegin, iBegin Labs with no comments |

Today we released iBegin Share v2.10, a complete rewrite to the original, iBox v2.11, and WordPress plug-in’s to go along with each of them (see Share below this post).

11

Mar

Filed in JavaScript, iBegin Labs with no comments |

One of my first projects at the new company has been updating a script called iBox. Most people are familiar with the concept, that of lightbox, as well as how inefficient most of the scripts are. The goal of iBox is simple: provide a lightweight modal dialog box with additional support for document types to […]