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Not Geekly Correct Hi, my name is Nicolas Alpi Web developer freelance, specialised in Ruby on Rails and Jquery languages. You can contact me at nicolas.alpi@gmail.com or by phone at 0782 640 3019. You can also follow me on Twitter @spyou or consult my LinkedIn profile.

20 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Current Bristol wheather inspire me!

These day, sun come out on Bristol, it’s warm and lovely, and with this one came some neat ideas.
First of all, I’m currently working on the brand new serialcooking design, under the KISS mantra. Hope it’ll know the success we want. If you want to follow the serialcooking development process, you can add the serialcooking [...]

19 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

My come back, and happy new year

Hi everyone,
I haven’t updated this blog since a while, but I’ll make my best to keep it up-to-date now.
First of all
Well, I now it’s a bit late, but in France it’s not unusual to give our Best Wishes until the end of January, so Happy New Year to everyone.

What’s new ?
Since the last post, we [...]

20 October 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Rails rumble 2008, finally manage to finish sheepfit

Rails rumble, this competition where Ruby on Rails developers were invited to code a web application in 48 Hours, is now over. Since today 00:00 GMT precisely.
I participated this year, and managed to develop a personal stretch reminder, called Sheep Fit. You can visit the application for the beta use here. The [...]

13 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

The 2 projects launch week.

A happy week is coming.
Last week I was really busy. A lot of work in my day job, and a lot of work at home on the travelplanner.
I’m now really proud to annonce that Nathalie, my partner, will help me in the launch of the two projects.
What are these 2 projects?
    The first one is [...]

11 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

10 Places left for the rails rumble

The rails rumble team inform us (on their blog) that they manage to open more Rails Rumble seat.
There are now 10 seat left. Hurry up.

03 October 2008 ~ 1 Comment

WiseStamp, an easy way to implement HTML signature in your emails

Are you looking to attach signature on your Gmail / Aol Mail / Hotmail / Yahoo Mail, without pain ?
WiseStamp Firefox Exension is for you.

This little extension will add a new button on the bottom right of your Firefox status bar. You’ll just have to do a right click, edit, and start your new signature [...]

02 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Before starting a new project, take a look.

If you’re planning to start a new project, from scratch, Jim Neath, from Fudge, had the good idea to create Bort, your application skeleton to start without pain.
What is Bort ?
      Ruby on Rails popularity brings to it a lot of very good plugins. And it’s that, on 98 % case, when you [...]

01 October 2008 ~ 6 Comments

NBGit, a Git plugin for Netbeans

Use Git and GitHub on Netbeans (image source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/boboroshi/2591305062/ )
For three months now I’ve managed to migrate my project on the Git version control system.
Just found, yesterday night, a Git plug in for Netbeans. It’s the first version, not all the commands are implemented, but, you will have the commit one, the diff one [...]

30 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Rails Rumble 2008, I’ll participate

After long hesitation, I finally took a place for the Rails Rumble 2008.
What’s the Rails Rumble :
Basically, you have 48 Hours long to build from scratch a deployable Ruby on Rails web application.
Every team will have a virtual seat. The rumble starts on October 18th 2008 at 00:00 GMT and stops on October 19Th 2008 [...]

26 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Starting a new project ? Need to find a domain name, bustaname

Like a lot of other website, BustAName will help you on the hard task of finding the perfect domain name.

But BustAName has a little something in plus.
The design is good, usability is really good, response time is very good, with the ajax form you’ll be able to try a lot of combinations in a short [...]