Posts Tagged ‘software engineering’

Garage48 in Helsinki and the Montroller Story (Videos)

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Back from another Garage48 event, this time from Helsinki. The project I was member of was completely different from the earier ones — we turned 6 more-or-less mobile devices into wireless 3D controllers for Lego Mindstorm NXT. We won Nokia special prize and public vote prize.

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The Next Garage48 Passed, Two Weeks Later

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

As I promised in my previous post, The Story of Creating Cocktail Roulette at Garage48 Startup Bootcamp Weekend, I participated in another Garage48, that happened in August 27-29th, in Tartu. As I am personally Tartu-based, I was actually engaged with the organizing team, but in the beginning of the event, I also decided to jump into helping out one idea Blurt.at, which, I think, is so far the best micropolling site available .
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Ideas Drawer, Sayat.me and Garage-48 style projects in general

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I’ve had some hobby-fun of trying out how small you can squeeze the time that is needed to complete a reasonable web site from an idea to first visitors (and their positive feedback). Ideas Drawer — in 12 hours by myself. Sayat.me — idea by me, but design and code by Mooncascade in 8 hours. Garage48 — weekend event in April, I’m planning to participate.
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The First Week Passed Since DailyPerfect News Site Launch

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

One week has now passed since we launched the DailyPerfect news site that’s shows our predictive personalization technology in action. On Friday I posted The DailyPerfect News Site Is Publicly Launched — the next morning emotions after going live with the service. Here is what has happened during the week.
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The DailyPerfect News Site Is Publicly Launched

Friday, June 5th, 2009

As usual with well prepared launches, the most exciting and rewarding moments are the last count-down moments before the launch, and observing the smooth lift-off of the baby – the first 400 users signing up in first 3 hours. These are the moments to live for!
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I Pulled My Bookshelf Out of the Closet — Have You Read Any?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Here is the list of books that I have read in either distant or recent past. Have you read or heard about some of these? What do you think of them? Feel free to comment!
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