Ignighter is hot off the heels of our Series A and is hiring part-time PHP developers in NYC. We're a Venture-funded team of 6. We're young, fun, we've got some rapid growth in our target market, but we've got a chip on our shoulders and a lot of work to do. We've been in the game for a few years, we earned our wings during Techstars Boulder 2008. Do I fit the profile? If you're young, hungry, Read the article >>

One of the amazing things about our human mind is that it enables the capacity of abstract thought. As software developers, we are taught to program computer systems. Doing so, we are learning to disembody ourselves from the physical everyday world of our lives and speak the language of bits and bytes, 0s and 1s. We use our capacity for abstract thought to put ourselves into a world where statements Read the article >>

One of the most amazing about startup life is how fantastically high the highs are, how quickly they can turn to dreadful pitiful lows and back again. Your professional life is quite literally one big question mark when you are building it from scratch. The instant you crack some really tough problem you're a genius. The moment the shit hits the fan, you're the worlds biggest moron. The stakes Read the article >>

I''m endlessly fascinated with how much people trust Google and other web services with their personal information. Given that the vast majority of google users don''t opt-out of the recording of their web history, and that the Justice department in the USA has subpoenaed millions of search results from Americans, I find the following Google search autocomplete endlessly fascinating. In each Read the article >>

I''m posting this because I had such a hard time fixing this (and Google didn''t seem to have any articles on how to fix it). If you are trying to add INSERT DELAYED queries to your application, and your rows are not getting inserted into your table, then you should check out your global status and variables: mysql> show status LIKE ''%Delay%''; +--------------------------+-------+ | Variable_name Read the article >>

I love data. I love trying to compare it with more qualitative analyses of my product. I love finding trends in it. But I hate spreadsheets. I need to consume data viscerally. In traditional retail, visitors to a store are in the same physical space as the employees, allowing collection of more ambient data about store ''usage'', e.g. foot patterns, visitor reactions, etc. Not so on the web. Read the article >>