February 2012
3 posts
Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically... →
Amazon assembling creative staff to produce... →
CSS "-x-" prefix
Why not have:
-x-border-radius: 5px;
instead of:
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-ms-border-radius: 5px;
-o-border-radius: 5px;
December 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Making WordPress dynamic, Thematic PJAX
WordPress
It’s no secret that WordPress is very popular, an incredible “14.7% of the top million websites in the world use it” and “22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress” (August 2011). Here at Stackd we host a lot of WordPress websites (most of our customers have at least one). Just like our customers that use WordPress, we’ve...
November 2011
2 posts
Teaching Entrepreneurship
It is often asserted that the poor man’s failure in the competition of the market is caused by his lack of education. Equality of opportunity, it is said, could be provided only by making education at every level accessible to all. There prevails today the tendency to reduce all differences among various peoples to their education and to deny the existence of inborn inequalities in intellect,...
Protect The Internet →
We support American Censorship Day. We’ve written to our representatives, you should too.
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
Encouraging UI students aspiring to be... →
Spotlight: Tyler Finchum, Founder of Farm Manuals... →
We’re excited to have Tyler Finchum, founder of Farm Manuals Fast on our show today. He’s only a college freshman, but his company, which provides electronic documentation for farm equipment, manuals previously difficult to acquire, has already “had over 2,000 sales across 6 continents, 25 countries, and 50 states”. We’re going to pick his brain about the agriculture...
August 2011
4 posts
Sponsoring Startup Weekend Iowa City →
We’re proud to be a Startup Weekend Iowa City sponsor. Stackd is also giving away two student scholarships, a unique opportunity to learn from serial entrepreneurs and turn their idea into a reality. Details of the contest are here.
The Stackd Show - Tuesdays at 4PM
We’re back! - Our weekly radio show on University of Iowa’s KRUI 89.7FM is returning this fall, every Tuesday at 4PM. Each week we’ll cover the latest and greatest in technology, business, and entrepreneurship, whether it’s here in the Silicon Prairie or abroad. If there are specific topics or questions you may have, shoot us an email or contact us via Twitter. To listen,...
3 tags
Behind the Technology: Managing Sessions w/...
Here at Stackd we use Ruby on Rails and CouchDB to serve our main application. One problem we ran into was managing user sessions. Initially, we had session[:user] set equal to a Seat::Record (see seat-rb, our Ruby CouchDB driver) object as such…
https://gist.github.com/945914
This works pretty well, but keeping the session variable up to date can be a pain. By storing the entire object in the...
Getting Better At Blogging →
We’ve been so hard at work these first couple months that we’ve done a terrible job of letting everyone know how we’re doing and what working on. That’s changing, and we’d like to welcome you to the new home of our blog.
April 2011
1 post
2 tags
What is Stackd?
Since we began work on Stackd six months ago, the most common question we’ve received has (unsurprisingly) been “What is Stackd?”. We didn’t set out to be a “stealth” startup, however we didn’t want to hype up an unfinished product. Over the past few weeks, Stackd has finally reached a point where we’re ready to share what Stackd is and why we built it.
Stackd is Collaborative Web Hosting
...
September 2010
1 post
March 2010
1 post
“Don’t let education get in the way of your learning”
– Mark Twain
January 2010
1 post
Stackd making college radio debut on KRUI
We love technology, business, and entrepreneurship. While we’ve been hard at work here for the past months, we haven’t lost touch in what drives us to do what we do. Each week we’ll share our take on what’s going on in the tech+biz+entrepreneur world, as well as our own experiences in starting a small company. This week we’ll take a hard look at the iPad, what...
October 2009
2 posts
“You cannot learn from a book [starts tearing out pages from textbook] Replace...”
– Michael Scott
“Sometimes when you bring the thunder, you get lost in the storm.”
– Kenny Powers