This blog has migrated to http://hashthyself.com/blog Please visit us there. It's been live since this afternoon, but expect many changes, especially to the theme as we try and settle on a good one.
Thanks.
- Hashers
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Migrating the blog (and other news)
Dudes et dudettes,
Last night, we finally managed to get Wordpress installed and configured just right on HashThySelf.com. Yes, selecting the right theme is always the most time-consuming as usual, and we're still not fully satisfied. We welcome your suggestions, of course.
We've been wanting to move the blog over to our local host for a while, now, but it had to wait for its turn in the project pipeline. Once we figure out a way to script or otherwise automate the transfer of past articles from blogger.com, we will start hosting our blog locally. (Thanks blogger, for having us in the meantime).
We have also made major progress with the promised FaceBook application, which is undergoing rigorous QC as we speak. I'm pleased to say that David Romano himself, the author of the Perl Facebook API on CPAN, is leading this effort.
And finally, of course, the migration of the back-end to be fully LAMP based is on schedule. We managed to scope out the issues in the last few days, and hope that this will happen before too long. We'd really like the databases to be migrated from MLDBM into MySql before we launch the FaceBook app. We have confirmed that the migration is most likely trivial, but as always, we need to make triple-triple sure that we haven't overlooked any hidden issues.
So, I ask you to please contain your excitement and keep watching our site.
Cheers.
A. Hasher
Last night, we finally managed to get Wordpress installed and configured just right on HashThySelf.com. Yes, selecting the right theme is always the most time-consuming as usual, and we're still not fully satisfied. We welcome your suggestions, of course.
We've been wanting to move the blog over to our local host for a while, now, but it had to wait for its turn in the project pipeline. Once we figure out a way to script or otherwise automate the transfer of past articles from blogger.com, we will start hosting our blog locally. (Thanks blogger, for having us in the meantime).
We have also made major progress with the promised FaceBook application, which is undergoing rigorous QC as we speak. I'm pleased to say that David Romano himself, the author of the Perl Facebook API on CPAN, is leading this effort.
And finally, of course, the migration of the back-end to be fully LAMP based is on schedule. We managed to scope out the issues in the last few days, and hope that this will happen before too long. We'd really like the databases to be migrated from MLDBM into MySql before we launch the FaceBook app. We have confirmed that the migration is most likely trivial, but as always, we need to make triple-triple sure that we haven't overlooked any hidden issues.
So, I ask you to please contain your excitement and keep watching our site.
Cheers.
A. Hasher
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
More cool things around the corner
Dudes et dudettes,
Since the launch of the "new look new feel" website for HashThySelf and a rather major overhaul of the back-end to be almost (but not yet quite) LAMP based, we haven't been twiddling our thumbs, of course. More new and exciting features are just around the corner.
Stay tuned for
(1) Some cool news about a HashMash API that will let you create your own custom widgets from HashThySelf Image Search Results
(2) A fantastically cool FaceBook HashMash app that lets facebookers directly hash their album photos and display the HashMash results on their profile
(3) Hopefully (yes, only hopefully, I'm afraid) an iPhone app, so you can Hash til' your heart's content from the coolest newest gadget out there! We've even looked at the Hash Widget under Safari on an iPhone and it looks like the funkiest Screensaver ever :-)
So keep an eye out for happenings at Hash. You'll like 'em.
A. Hasher!
Since the launch of the "new look new feel" website for HashThySelf and a rather major overhaul of the back-end to be almost (but not yet quite) LAMP based, we haven't been twiddling our thumbs, of course. More new and exciting features are just around the corner.
Stay tuned for
(1) Some cool news about a HashMash API that will let you create your own custom widgets from HashThySelf Image Search Results
(2) A fantastically cool FaceBook HashMash app that lets facebookers directly hash their album photos and display the HashMash results on their profile
(3) Hopefully (yes, only hopefully, I'm afraid) an iPhone app, so you can Hash til' your heart's content from the coolest newest gadget out there! We've even looked at the Hash Widget under Safari on an iPhone and it looks like the funkiest Screensaver ever :-)
So keep an eye out for happenings at Hash. You'll like 'em.
A. Hasher!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Launched at last!
Dudes et dudettes,
As some of you might have seen already, HashThySelf Version 2 has now been live for a couple of days. We're very pleased with its look and feel, although it doesn't quite measure up to our old literary standards :-)
As I had mentioned earlier, we had some setbacks including hardware failures and network outages. But the killer setback was that Morgan R. Allen, who was originally assigned this project ran into personal emergencies that made it impossible for him to finish it in time. Fortunately for us, and thanks to Google, I managed to locate Mike Foster by searching the net for folk who had implemented things similar to what I had in mind. A quick email discussion later, despite the vast distances separating us, Mike and I had struck a chord and the cosmically cool widgets you now see on our site and yours are the results of his amazing work.
Let me take this opportunity to thank Mike for (a) stepping in to rescue us in the nick of time and (b) for doing such a great job in such a short time, allowing us to stick to our original deadline!
More good news - HashThySelf has found our first technology licensee. We have already confirmed that our simple plug-and-play deployment option works like a charm at their site. All they had to do was practically insert our HashThySelf image matching linux box into their network, point it at their image store and it went to work right-away, serving image matches from their inventory. With this new source of funding, you can therefore expect us to invest in improvements to both the service and the core technology going forward.
In other news, we have our first job posting out for a Business Development manager, although it is initially commission based. Let's hope this is the first of many in a rapidly growing venture.
Meanwhile, enjoy the new site and feel free to send us your comments. We appreciate them greatly, as always.
A. Hasher
As some of you might have seen already, HashThySelf Version 2 has now been live for a couple of days. We're very pleased with its look and feel, although it doesn't quite measure up to our old literary standards :-)
As I had mentioned earlier, we had some setbacks including hardware failures and network outages. But the killer setback was that Morgan R. Allen, who was originally assigned this project ran into personal emergencies that made it impossible for him to finish it in time. Fortunately for us, and thanks to Google, I managed to locate Mike Foster by searching the net for folk who had implemented things similar to what I had in mind. A quick email discussion later, despite the vast distances separating us, Mike and I had struck a chord and the cosmically cool widgets you now see on our site and yours are the results of his amazing work.
Let me take this opportunity to thank Mike for (a) stepping in to rescue us in the nick of time and (b) for doing such a great job in such a short time, allowing us to stick to our original deadline!
More good news - HashThySelf has found our first technology licensee. We have already confirmed that our simple plug-and-play deployment option works like a charm at their site. All they had to do was practically insert our HashThySelf image matching linux box into their network, point it at their image store and it went to work right-away, serving image matches from their inventory. With this new source of funding, you can therefore expect us to invest in improvements to both the service and the core technology going forward.
In other news, we have our first job posting out for a Business Development manager, although it is initially commission based. Let's hope this is the first of many in a rapidly growing venture.
Meanwhile, enjoy the new site and feel free to send us your comments. We appreciate them greatly, as always.
A. Hasher
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