Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, startup, simplespark on May 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
PayScroll got added to SimpleSpark.com under the employment category. I’ve never heard of this site before, but after looking around, I find that it was pretty comprehensive in covering new startups in the employment section. Out of all the web startups in the employment category, there were approximately half of them that I were unaware […]
Posted in Payscroll, salary, press coverage on March 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Nothing is greater than getting some attention and a little limelight from the press like New York Times, and that is so today. As usual, I was logging in to our Google analytics account to check out traffic stats for the day around noon and guess what - I was staring at a huge jump […]
Posted in Payscroll, startup, jotspot, development on February 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
As some of you might have came across from an earlier post on the Payscroll blog, we are using a couple of “free” online collaboration tools to manage development of Payscroll. A main part of our development evolves around using our internal Jotspot wiki. We signed up for a free account sometime in October and […]
Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, startup, jobs on January 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sorry for the downtime I took from blogging on Payscroll. Things have been moving on great over on the development side.
We recently got 2 Rails developer on board and now we are seeing some real good tractions at getting out what we have planned for. As a side note, it turns out that we are […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Payscroll, Mongrel, Ruby on Rails, startup advisor on December 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
If you are addicted to Rails, I bet you’ll be addicted to Zed Shaw’s work - Mongrels. Many Rails app out there in production are running this excellent piece of software, serving requests - 24×7. So last week, he announced that “He’s officially retiring as a coder“, but Mongrel’s safe. How so?
So the words that […]
Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, startup, Ruby on Rails, jobs on October 31st, 2006 No Comments »
It’s been a while since I last post anything to our development process here, so I thought maybe it might be interesting to do a short discussion on seeking Ruby on Rails developers for your projects. As a lean startup, the first thing that hits you is, you simply cannot afford the luxury to open […]
Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, project management on October 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
As a 2.0 startup, we tried to manage the project in a lean (it just means we operate with as little cost as possible, ideally at zero cost) and effective way. So naturally, it came to me that we need to establish and utilize a set of tools to manage the project and make it […]
Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, Rails, Ngnix, Mongrel, Litespeed on September 25th, 2006 3 Comments »
If you have read the blog posts that we have been making, you might have picked up some clues here that we are building this wonderful service using a beautiful language with a wonderful framework. For the past 2 weeks, we have been working hard to get the infrastructure and building the team that shares […]
Posted in Payscroll, web 2.0, salary, startup on August 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
Are we missing in action? Most definitely not. We are busy coding and gimping away to get ourselves ready for the private alpha. As far as I can say, we have nailed out a barebone layout that we will be using for alpha and public beta launch. Things are moving along and definitely getting pretty […]