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Case-insensitive username login in Django
By default django’s authentication module (django.contrib.auth) does a case-sensitive username look up. This means that a user with username ‘farhan’ will not be able to login as ‘Farhan’. Obviously, this is not the standard behavior that users expect. There was a ticket filed, but, unfortunately, the team doesn’t have time to fix (understandably, it is [...]
Continue reading...“Free is not the future of web apps” (FOWA Part 2)
7. March 2009
After having a blast at BarCampMiami, attending a social media mixer and enjoying a bit of Miami beach, it was time for the main event. The Future of Web Apps was upon us. The event was held in the Arsht center, a beautiful facility. It kicked off with Ryan Carson who introduced Jason Fried from 37Signals. The event was headlined by others like Joel Spolsky (Fogcreek), Aza Raskin (Mozilla) , and Dave Morin (Facebook). The best product demo/announcement was done by Francisco Tolmasky of 280North and their new product called Atlas. It was a well deserved shining moment for those guys that got a lot of attention and oooos and ahhhs from the crowd.
Continue reading...FOWA Miami and Barcamp, Part 1 of 2
3. March 2009
Last week we were in Miami attending the Future of Web Apps conference. What an amazing experience! In addition to learning about some of the upcoming technologies and practices, we got to meet a lot of great people. We met with many awesome local Floridian companies, entrepreneurs, designers and developers, and mingled with the speakers [...]
Continue reading...ShopFiber in the news
2. March 2009
Farhan and I have been very busy with ShopFiber lately and just recently got back from our trip down to Miami, FL for the Future of Web Apps conference (which we will be posting about shortly). As a part of being involved with the conference we were recently featured in a couple online publications IT [...]
Continue reading...Startup Weekend: Detroit 2.0
2. February 2009
Being a Michigan native and up-and-coming entrepreneur is sometimes tough as there isn’t quite the same start-up community presence here as there is in Silicon Valley. However recently, with the dramatic layoffs of the Big Three auto companies, there’s a feeling in the air that it’s time for change. One event that I’m very excited [...]
Continue reading...Remotely co-founding a startup is easier than you may think
28. January 2009
It’s not news that the internet provides a ton of ways for you to work remotely and it works great for the few times you can’t make a meeting in person but what about founding and launching an entire company? Farhan, who is located in Wisconsin, and myself, located in Michigan, are doing just that. [...]
Continue reading...ShopFiber accepted into MERLIN Mentors program
5. January 2009
Exciting news today as ShopFiber has been accepted into the MERLIN Mentors program (http://www.merlinmentors.org). Stay tuned as we get more involved with the program.
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20. March 2009
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