http://tektactic.com a blog by Kinan Sweidan about entrepreneurship, technology, open source and more Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:14:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We finally launched our Ximda new website. Our focus is on Mobile . Web . Social Media We will be adding a lot of useful information to the blog area. So check it out and subscribe to our RSS feed.ShareThis http://tektactic.com/2008/04/29/ximdacom-new-website/ I went yesterday to DemoCamp Dallas1 to present DealBurnr. And I had no intention to go live soon. But my friend Giovanni insisted (yelled at me) to go live ASAP. So I came back home worked until the morning on fixing problems, adding image uploads and doing last minute integration with ... http://tektactic.com/2007/02/16/dealburnr-goes-live/ Christopher St. John is hosting the first DemoCamp in Dallas history Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007 – 6:30-8:00 Location: Sabre Labs A DemoCamp is a lighter-weight style of un-conference. It lasts only a few hours on a weekday evening. Unlike a BarCamp, you don’t have to present. You are welcome to ... http://tektactic.com/2007/02/08/democamp-dallas1/ BarCamp Dallas III turnout was great. There were a lot of good sessions covering interesting topics. I was able to have very good conversations about emerging technology trends and to exchange ideas with local entrepreneurs. Erica and Caleb showed great leadership and excellent organization. Giovanni Gallucci did an excellent job covering the ... http://tektactic.com/2007/01/22/barcamp-dallas-was-a-success/ See you at BarCamp Dallas When: 3rd Weekend in January (2007) – Jan 20th – 21st Where: The 4th floor at the Microsoft Las Colinas Campus. ShareThis http://tektactic.com/2007/01/14/barcamp-dallas-iii/ Everybody in IT wants to build the next big thing but in reality it’s almost impossible. Especially for small firms that don’t have plethora of resources. If you are a web entrepreneur, you know that driving traffic to your website is very vital to its survival. But how do you generate ... http://tektactic.com/2007/01/11/the-next-small-thing/ Instiki is a Ruby on Rails wiki, created by the famous David Heinemeier Hansson This wiki doesn’t try to match options offered by more mature products such as MediaWki. Instead, it focuses on simplicity and ease of use. Lately I’ve been playing with it to create a public wiki and private one ... http://tektactic.com/2006/12/17/instiki-in-action/ I’ve been lately digging in RubyForge trying to find good open source projects built using Ruby. Unfortunately there are only few mature projects out there. However, there are plenty of new ones with great potentials. The adoption of Ruby in open source projects is as important as adopting it in the ... http://tektactic.com/2006/12/13/ruby-adoption-in-open-source-projects/ In the upcoming weeks, Ximda will roll out a new website called DealBurnr.com. The website is a web 2.0 approach to bargain shopping. We took Digg.com concept of story voting and applied it to deal hunting. Users can submit deals to dealburnr where people can vote on these deals with either ... http://tektactic.com/2006/12/11/new-upcoming-website/ Time Warner has recently replaced Comcast in the Dallas area. It’s so easy to notice that the service is going down hill. They’ve been promising a very smooth migration between the two services. But if they call loosing Internet connectivity for 12 hours (on a businesses class account) a smooth migration ... http://tektactic.com/2006/11/15/from-comcast-to-time-warner/