Big pond. Small fish. Sharp teeth.

The Feisty Piranha Project is headed up by BrightMix developer interns Allyn, Robert, and designer Erin. Their goal is to create and launch a brand-spanking-new web 2.0 application. Whats the app? Subscribe to the blog, and follow their progress over the summer to find out...

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  • work from coffee shop Tuesday

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    Another day, another lack-of-power-at-the-office-so-I’m-gonna-go-to-a-coffee-shop situation. Good thing we’ve got MacBooks and Campfire. Since I basically can’t post anything I’ve been working on without giving away top-secretness (though I was going to post some censored screenshots on Friday, but the power went out and I took that to mean it was a stupid idea), I’m going [...]

  • Hack From Home Monday

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    For those of you that do not know, Brightmix is located in Omaha, Nebraska. Well, on Friday around 5:00 as we were right about to pack up for a nice quite weekend, something bad happened. A massive storm invaded the city of Omaha.
    During the 10 minutes duration of the storm, winds grew upwards [...]

  • End of the Week

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    There’s less than an hour of the work week left! Today I’ve been putting RSS feeds into our app - should be awesome. It’s been a bit of a pain, but only because we decided to do something a little more complex with it then just everything having a feed and that’s it.
    Our app has [...]

  • nevermind, the text looks terrible

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    So, I was thinking I was so awesome exporting a pdf from InDesign and importing into Photoshop to get a png with pixel-perfect accuracy (a one-pixel line actually shows up as a one-pixel line!), but of course turning off anti-aliasing makes the text chunky and sucky. Anyway……………
    At the beginning of the week, I made a [...]

  • Getting friendly_id to work!

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    If you have read Allyn’s post from a week ago, you would have noticed him saying:
    “For example, our current application has a page that executes several hundred queries when it loads. Obviously this is absolutely horrible and will have to be fixed before it’s released.”
    Well, this was exactly what I set off to do this [...]