Monthly Archives: February 2012

Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap

Written on February 26, 2012 at 2:31 pm, by

Lately the BUZZ word in the web world has been Bootstrap, the HTML, CSS & JS framework for quickly designing & developing the front-end for any website or app. Bootstrap is the jumping off point that we’ve all been wanting for decades that would allow us to not have to worry about how we’re going to create a prototype/app and focus on solving the bigger issues like strategy, retention and getting that huge exit.

In the past designers & developers would [...]

How POW saved my Ruby on Rails Education

Written on February 9, 2012 at 8:50 am, by

I’ve been fortunate enough to have been a part of two winning ideas at Startup Weekend, the first having been built, scrapped, rebuilt and scrapped again only to be built over a weekend by the founder and various teams of developers and designers. The other was an idea I had around improving the wedding website space focussing on beautiful design and simplicity.

My plan was to build the application using Ruby on Rails to take advantage of the simplicity of the [...]