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Yay Metro Times!

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One of my friends pointed out to me that a search for dc metro times on Google shows my lil’ web app in third place. Nice!
Peter of iStrategyLabs recommended that I get it it’s own domain name, no more piggybacking off skeevisarts.com (which I redesigned by the way, check it out!!) and see what I can build out of it.

Hosted Source Control, Bug, Issue Tracking

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I’ve been using Freepository to host my current projects, but Unfuddle looks good enough to switch to, and their plans seem pretty decent. I had been getting pretty sick of the current issue trackers I’ve been using, which always seem to be butt ugly.

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, and CrazyCaptions!

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I love when the gov’t prevents you from working for them. So instead of actually doing anything productive, I made a fun Facebook application, from start to finish! CrazyCaptions lets your friends add funny captions to your Facebook photos! Create caption contests that show up on your profile in one step! Developing on the Facebook platform definitely has it’s benefits. No user...

Marketing Using a Facebook Application

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Since the Facebook Platform has been launched a number of months ago, allowing anyone to write an application that can interact with Facebook users in any number of ways, thousands of such applications have been released. While many startups are forming (and existing ones) focusing solely on Facebook applications, a viable business model for a web app existing solely within the walled garden of...

Uploading CakePHP Code via Ant

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I’ve been doing developing in CakePHP, which is a pretty awesome rapid development framework, that tries (with 90% success) to give die-hard PHP developers a fast way to build up applications (similar to Ruby on Rails). I’ve only gotten my feet wet with it so far, but I can see it really going places. One thing that always annoys me is developing code on my own machine, and...

Zvi Band Relationships are our most important asset.

Zvi Band

Founder of Contactually.
I'm also passionate about growing the DC startup community, and I've founded Proudly Made in DC and the DC Tech Meetup.

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