As I’ve been working to get our startup Goodbits up and running I’ve been using many different tools to get as much insight on our customers activity. The one tool that I’ve been using the most has been Kissmetrics which has allowed me to look at specific events or actions that a user carried out on the site. Making it far more useful than the popular choice of Google Analytics or similar…

I’ve been a Ruby guy for over 4 years now and have always found the language fun and the frameworks suitable for building web based applications, I love it.

Since the release of Node.js in 2009, I and my colleagues at GoFreeRange were very excited about the event loop, non-blocking IO goodness for scalability and speed on the web. We had even played on something to help

If you like me use Skype quite bit for calls or coding together with other developers, you might find that when you’re quiet Skype tries to be clever and automatically increase the microphone gain. This is crap as it starts to pick up the background noise.

You can’t easily turn off automatic gain control in Skype, it’s a setting you can apply in a xml file. Hunting around I found the solution again and this time I’ve stuck in a gist in case you want to