Archive for September, 2008

Calling all designers!

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Fluther is hiring!
Join Andrew and me in designing the next generation of Fluther products.
Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! Send us your portfolios!

You can send email to jobs [at] fluther (dot) com.
p.s. It’s going to be really fun.

Better links!

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

We just pushed some changes for a long-standing request: opening links in new windows.
We’ve also recently updated the guidelines.
We hope you enjoy how easy it is to return to your addiction!

The Fluther Interview: wildflower

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From her witty banter to her ability to always stand out, wildflower is one user that has impressed us all.
Fluther community co-chair PnL takes her first crack at interviewing in this exposé of the Fluther superstar.
Within: life, music and Hello Kitty…

Question & Answer Men

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Check out this great piece in the Brown Alumni Magazine about Andrew and me and Fluther.

It’s one of my favorite articles about Fluther thus far, and it includes some history of our early collaborations. Plus, you get to see us doing the robot.

mogileFS for Django

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

In preparation for DjangoCon, I thought I’d release a little bit of quickly-written-code (read: easily improvable!) that we use to serve our avatars on Fluther.
Here’s the basic rundown:

Get mogilefs on your box
Patch django to support different FileBackends
Get data into mogile
Get data out of mogile

Getting mogile
We use Ubuntu on our production boxes, and it just so […]

Tipping our hat to Django…

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

We started building Fluther on top of the Django platform two years ago, and it’s been an absolute pleasure. Using Django turned out to be one of the best technology decisions that we’ve made, and we’re proud to be using this excellent platform.

Django just reached the big 1.0 marker, and we wanted to say, “Congratulations!”
Thanks […]

Fluther on Chrome

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

If you haven’t already heard about Google’s new Chrome browser, well… I suppose that means you’re not addicted to tech blogs.
Nonetheless, we’re happy to report that Fluther does work like a charm on it. We had to take our friends justin and PnL’s words for it, though, because we’re still waiting for a Mac version:

Has […]