Archive for March, 2009

  • BBQing @ The LetMeGo Immersion

    BBQing @ The LetMeGo Immersion

    Just pictures this time:

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  • Back in NYC for just over one day and for a very good reason….

    Back in NYC for just over one day and for a very good reason….

    The most difficult aspect of my participation in the LetMeGo Immersion has been the fact that it keeps me away from my beautiful wife and lover, Tania. This fact is constantly in the back of my mind, but two nights ago, when the team took a...

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  • The Hendrrix Scope Is Ready For Prime Time!

    The Hendrrix Scope Is Ready For Prime Time!

    The Hendrrix Scope, the system of the Merrcury Engine in charge of user account management, is ready for prime time! Henry and Maestro started working on this scope in the second quarter of the previous year. It reached Alpha stage in September. Today, Hendrrix is the...

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  • What Do Code Version Control, Database Version Control, Automated Unit Testing, Automated Rollbacks, and Automated Selenium Testing Have In Common?

    What Do Code Version Control, Database Version Control, Automated Unit Testing, Automated Rollbacks, and Automated Selenium Testing Have In Common?

    Answer: They are all part of a very powerful publishing tool, and it just so happens to be the one that Andres just finished developing for the Merrcury Engine (the software powering LetMeGo). As many of you may know, publishing the new version of a website...

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  • The LetMeGo Logo Timeline

    The LetMeGo Logo Timeline

    Right after we secured the domain name “letmego.com“, we started to daydream about our logo. It didn’t take much. After a few days, we were already working on it. This is the little story called ‘How The Logo Came To Be’. Coming up with a logo...

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  • Sorry for the Spam. We Just Moved Over to WordPress

    Sorry for the Spam. We Just Moved Over to WordPress

    Hi! If you are subscribed to my blog, you may have seen a bunch of old posts re-appearing once again. This happened because we just moved my blog from Blogger over to WordPress. I am sorry for the inconvenience! So far I like WordPress (a...

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  • The First Public Photo of Our Team. Guess Who Is Who!

    The First Public Photo of Our Team. Guess Who Is Who!

    Okay… this is a “virtual” picture, but a picture nonetheless. It is the snapshot of our Wii Fit welcome screen. Most of us are investing around 30 minutes per day exercising on it while working on the LetMeGo Immersion. Some of us are gaining weight,...

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  • Best Tests I Received for the LetMeGo Immersion

    Best Tests I Received for the LetMeGo Immersion

    Hi there! Several weeks ago we announced that we were looking for people for the LetMeGo Immersion. Almost immediately we started getting applications that included the required tests. Applying was not easy and working on these tests could take a full day, easily. Although we are...

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  • The Requirements of LetMeGo Have Been Written Down

    The Requirements of LetMeGo Have Been Written Down

    I started documenting the requirements for the Merrcury Engine (the software behind the upcoming LetMeGo.com) back in January of 2008. We finished it yesterday, after having invested around 2,000 hours of work on it. Most of these hours were mine, but I received help from...

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  • Let Me Go @ High Speeds

    Let Me Go @ High Speeds

    This is a quick post. The problem: The code that we had already developed for the Merrcury Engine (the software behind the future LetMeGo.com) was responding to requests at a very slow rate. The fastest pages were taking more than four seconds to render. The most...

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