Poly9, Qc city, map experts since 2005 are launching the Mapspread public beta today!
Spreadsheets importation, online managing, multi-user sharing and easy publication around the web, the feature list is pretty impressive!
You can sign up for free for a limited time as a beta tester right here »
Have you tried it? I’d like to have your opinion about it and any idea how it could be used at ByTheOwner, thanks!
Seen on the 280 Atlas website, video demo of this 280 North’s Cappuccino editor
Build an online rss reader in 5 minutes :
Working at BTO as a web developper has great benefits, and one of them is that I’m actually in the beautiful city of Miami, attending the FOWA Future of Web Apps 2009 conference & workshops!
This morning, I had the chance to assist to Francisco Tolmasky’s (280 North) workshop called “How to build advanced web apps with Cappuccino and Objective-J”. It was an absolutely great demo and I’m actually very excited about using this framework for incoming projects at ByTheOwner. Read the rest of this entry »
Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with agile software development. We’re giving a try at this development process this year at BTO.
Last year, we often had the impression to keep running without getting anywhere and getting anything done. We were always working on a thousand things at the same time and were having a lot of difficulty keeping the focus to get features out. The team is getting bigger and we didn’t quite succeed to manage it perfectly.
I won’t be part of the first Scrum project since I have to play the firefighter part. I’ll be trying to clear the bugs and emergencies so the other developpers can have an 100% focus on their 3 weeks project but still, I can’t wait to see if it will all work out as expected.
If you’d like to learn more about Scrum and Agile development :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
Full explanations, if you have the time to read »
or, this related video :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011
A major update involving hundreds of files has occured today on BTO under the Your Account tab. The new version we’ve been working on in the last weeks was available and bug-fixed at the end of the afternoon.
This is a big update and we’re very proud of it. It brings on some cool new features and a much clearer nav panel. We worked hard to make sure that every tool was available at the right spot since the older version was getting kind of messy…
What’s new?
We really do hope you enjoy those changes and are able to start using the new section quite swiftly… Don’t hesitate to let us know if you encounter any problems!
Thanks a lot!
PS : Special thanks to Frank, Patrice P-L and Gui for todays rush!
Frédérick Dubois, Programmeur
DuProprio.com / ByTheOwner.com
Here is an absolutely great video.
It reveals some very interesting (even fascinating) facts about technology’s evolution in the past years :
We’re launching today a new tool that will help you find the best property according to it’s location and the places you visit everyday!
Developed for a BleuBlancRouge ad campaign targetting the Montreal QC market, this new feature will be available to all Canadian customers in the search results. They will be able to calculate the distance between different addresses and the homes available on ByTheOwner.com
Why such a tool? Isn’t it interesting, and even essential, to know the distance between your future home and your office? Your child’s daycare? Mom’s home? That sure is a big factor that you need to consider. Even more with the gas prices these days!
Built using the Google Maps geocoding technology, this tool was developed pretty quickly during last weeks, so if you encounter any problems, or have suggestions, we’d like to know! Leave us comments using the box below so we can make this feature something you’ll enjoy using in your search!
Thanks!
Frédérick Dubois, Programmer
ByTheOwner.com / DuProprio.com
According the the Google Adsense Blog :
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.
Even though it’s sad news for many people, I really do understand the “focus” problem they had. We have to deal with this reality everyday and it causes many headaches…
Bye bye referrals! Now let’s hope the adsense team will be able to use all this extra focus to offer us an even better service!
Some of our customers have reported to us strange behaviors in the Advanced Stats tool of their listing. We have investigated the problem and are actually working on it.
Why did this happen?
Since the beginning of last week, we’ve been working on the implementation of a new dedicated stats server. We’ve had to change a lot of the pages and scripts of the website to do so, which caused the problem you might be experiencing.
We are working hard today to try to get the situation back to the normal as fast as possible. I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to get to a result you’ll judge satisfying, and that you’ll understand that we are doing those moves in order to be able to provide you with the best tools around.
Thanks a lot for your understanding,
Frédérick Dubois, Senior Programmer
ByTheOwner.com
