In Episode #8 of The Spin Show, we complete the talk we started in the previous episode about the cost of opening a company in Dubai. We talk a lot about numbers and cost for things like business license, rent and other fees. We hope those figures serve as a guideline for people thinking about [...]
In Episode #7 of The Spin Show, we talk about how to start a company in Dubai. We focus a bit on things related to a web/services company, which is our case, but we talk about some very general aspects of opening a company. We’ll need at least another episode to go over some more [...]
We would like to invite all Web enthusiasts in Dubai to participate in Dubai HackNight on Wednesday November 19th 2008 at 7PM. The goal of the event is to provide a place where people involved in the web industry in Dubai can get together in a more “geeky” environment. If you work as a Web [...]
We are doing it one more time, we announced DemoCamp Dubai 3 a few days, which will take place at the Radisson SAS in Dubai Media City on October 28th 2008 at 7:30PM.
It’s encouraging to see DemoCamp happen again here in Dubai. The first and second events were a success in all senses, we had [...]
In Episode #6 of The Spin Show, we talked about firefox3 and some of the new enhansments and fixs and we also discussed some add-ons which are big help for web developers
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Add-ons discussed in the podcast:
Firebug 1.2.0b6
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. [...]
One of the things that make our team enjoy working with the Internet is that every other month, a new technology, library or technique shows up under our radar; so, we get to try things really early, when they are far from being mainstream.
Of course, we don’t try new technologies just for the sake of [...]
A common feature in most web apps is filtering and sorting items, doing this in Rails 2.1 got really simple and clean with named_scope. Here is a quick tutorial on how we do it in our apps:
We start by defining the filters and sorting options as scopes:
# Types
named_scope :rentals,
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“Slicejar”:http://www.slicejar.com is an exciting/fun project that we started working on recently (early-beta now). And today, I want to share a quick and easy way to create a Slicejar-like heading banner with basic knowledge in Photoshop.
First, set the foreground color to #2D2823, then insert the “Banner 1” shape at any size you like but make sure [...]
In Episode #5 of The Spin Show, we interview Karim Arafat, co-founder of Tootcorp and CEO of watwet, a social networking and mini-blogging service based in Jordan.
Watwet is growing and looking to expand in the region.
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At SpinBits, our team has built and contributed to some of the most enviable web applications in the region. Even though we pride ourselves on our fun, relaxed and casual culture, we take our products and services very seriously. We aim to delivery real, hard value.
If we accept a website development project, we not only [...]
