John BeynonWebsite launched to bring together the Guildford web community
We’ve launched a new website for Web Meet Guildford, aka WMG today, webmeetguildford.co.uk to serve as a directory of anyone involved with the web in and around Guildford and also for notifying the community of future events that we will be holding.
Built using the tool we love, Ruby on Rails we’ve incorporated sign up via Devise and Omniauth for Twitter authentication and the Twitter gem for retrieving Tweets. Agencies signing up are geocoded from their postcode using the Google Geocoding service, the rest of their details are then populated by magic.
The site is delivered via Heroku using a range of addons from New Relic for server and front end performance monitoring, Hoptoad, Logging to Memcached thrown in for good measure.
Working with the Twitter API can certainly be fun, for instance did you know that a Twitter user has two unique identifiers? Their REST API uses one of these IDs and the search API uses another, it’s been an ‘accepted’ issue now since December 2008! Also, dealing with hash tags has it’s own pit falls since they are a free for all. The #WMG tag we use is used elsewhere so we simply can’t just show any tweet using the hashtag #wmg so we have to make sure that we only show #wmg tweets from our members.
We plan on adding additional functionality in coming months – so if you’re involved with the web in and around Guildford make sure you come and join to keep up to date with the goings on and hopefully we’ll see you at the next event confirmed now for June 23rd from 6pm (3 Pigeons, top of Guildford high street) and let us know if you’ve got any ideas on how we can further develop the site.
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Tags: event, guildford, surrey, beer, launch, wmg
Peter RoomeGuildford to Barcelona Charity Cycle Ride, 11th August 2010
Does anyone else get seriously bored when they go on holiday in the summer and just sit on the beach and do nothing for a week? Well this year it stops. Joel and myself (Pete) have taken it upon ourselves to do something a bit different this summer, we have decided to cycle to Barcelona from Guildford and raise some money in the process.
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Tags: gps, guildford, surrey, barcelona, cycling, jigsaw, charity
Gavin ShinfieldA tasty new client for Kyan
We are pleased to announce that we will be working with local firm Squires Group on their International Kitchen Schools website.
Squires are a forward-thinking company with a great understanding of how the Web can compliment and augment traditional marketing channels as well as streamline internal business processes. We look forward to working together on this and hopefully several other upcoming projects.