After an incredibly exciting weekend of watching manpacks.com go viral to a degree I thought I’d outline how we got to this point, and talk about our experience with one service in particular – chargify.com.
First, a bit of back story… Manpacks started out as a casual conversation via  IM, talking over some problems/solutions that might [...]

I know what you’re thinking – You’ve heard a ton of stuff about SaaS (Software as a Service), but WTF is PaaS? Well…in short it’s Products as a Service (we toyed with referring to it as pPaaS too, physical Products as a Service but it didn’t feel as straight-forward as PaaS). In short it’s selling [...]

What do I call myself? What do i do all day?
These are questions I find myself asking all the time. And to be honest, applied to a ‘real’ job, I don’t know. I wear many hats throughout the day and have learnt a great many skills over the last 8 years of working on my [...]

In general I dislike reality tv (although I’ll begrudgingly admit I have a soft spot for Ice Road Truckers (no idea why) and currently BBQ Pitmasters). However, I was thinking this morning something that I would absolutely watch (provided my Apple TV’s streaming/download speeds cooperated – they haven’t been lately) is a video podcast that [...]

Why would we want to build a web app to track bugs/issues? It doesn’t sound very sexy does it? And aren’t there a number of web-based bug tracking applications already? Some even free?
To answer these questions I think I first have to explain how we’ve been tracking bugs on Hashbrown projects for the last while.
For [...]