May 2013
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Integrating with LinkedIn - Geeklist dives deep...
Today Geeklist released a deep dive integration with LinkedIn. Being able to log in using LinkedIn is basic and just pulling data is boring. So just like with our Facebook Open Graph integration, now many of your activities on Geeklist will auto-magically appear in your LinkedIn activity stream whenever you want it to. Just go to your settings and link the account:
This means when you give...
April 2013
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A meetup wrap-up on the Geeklist node.js talk by...
On April Fool’s Day, a happy crowd of Geekli.st members (and friends) gathered for pizza and beer to listen to a lecture from an angry pink unicorn. That would be Daniel Shaw (@dshaw), a Voxer engineer, Node.js expert, and one of the principals in the leading Node.js consultancy, The Node Firm (@thenodefirm). His topic? Running Node.js in production. It was a nice show, with light...
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The Other Reason Companies Build Freemium Software
[This guest post for Geeklist comes from Lorinda Brandon, Editor and Strategist at SmartBear Software. You can follow her on Twitter or find her blogging regularly at SmartBear.]
It’s no secret that many companies develop a line of freemium products in an effort to drive revenue. But what may not be apparent to most are all the other reasons companies develop freemium products. It certainly...
March 2013
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6 Things Your Company Can Do To Stop Turning Off...
[A guest blog post for Geeklist by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Gayle is the founder / CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com’s #1 best-selling interview book) and The Google Resume. Gayle has worked a software engineer for Microsoft, Apple and Google, and served on Google’s hiring committee. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Quora, or her blog.]
I talk...
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I Can Haz Telco: The Ins and Outs of Partnering...
A guest blog for Geeklist post by Alex Salkever
So you have the latest whiz-bang smartphone app. You got mad coding skills. You have a monetization strategy that would slay Larry and Sergey. Naturally, you want to partner with a large telco to maximize your distribution and get some do-ray-mi flowing to your coding teams and get that VC monkey off your back. Right? Or at least do a throw-down...
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How to rebuild a tech team while drinking your own...
Imagine you’re a startup co-founder. You are running a killer stack in node.js on the front and back-end with Mongoose, Redis, Hadoop, jQuery, Express, and your team is running so fast they test on their local machines and push straight to production. You’re migrating from Heroku to Joyent and you’re split between the two, new releases are pushing out weekly and the site is...
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How Geeklist went guerilla last year @sxsw with...
You don’t need a venue… crash one. You don’t need a caterer or big staff… invite friends over, make something simple, get a cooler from the walmart (take a cab to one) What the heck, it’s SXSW and really anything goes. Have fun because unless you have a huge budget and team to help you’re not going to get anywhere with smaller events. So go rogue! If...
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Geeklist CTO & Co-founder steps down and new CTO...
After two amazing years working relentlessly together building Geeklist, our Co-founder and CTO, Christian Sanz, has decided to step down to pursue some truly amazing new passions and opportunities. He remains a significant shareholder and close advisor to Geeklist, spreading the Geeklist love around the tech community as he continues to innovate the world around us and, as for the past 10 years,...
February 2013
2 posts
Wanna Self-Publish a Tech Book? Here's What You...
[A guest blog post for Geeklist by @volkan]
A week ago, a reader in China bought the 300th copy of JavaScript Interview Questions. In retrospect, that’s pretty good for a work-in-progress technical book with virtually zero marketing budget. The book is not even finished yet. By the time of this writing it has 46,033 words and298 pages, and there are still empty pages, incomplete sections,...
January 2013
2 posts
Links get notes on Geeklist
It’s only natural. When we see a link we want to comment on it. From the first day we launched links the demand for leaving comments was deafening. So in Geeklist form, we built it. (well, actually Christian built it )
Now you can add Notes to links, sharing your thoughts and comments. Try it out! Go to your favorite community, select a link and leave a note. In light of the recent untimely...
It's 2013: If you're not using Geeklist to build...
I’m not putting out many ‘marketing-ish’ type blog posts throughout the year. It’s not what Geeklist is about or how we like to share information. However, tonight I’m making an exception to that rule because many of you are still complaining that you can’t find developers to hire going into 2013. That’s because you’re doing it wrong!
The champagne...
December 2012
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The 10x Developer in you
A myth is going around in programming circles of a mythical beast called The 10x Programmer. These creatures eschew laws of nature, compared to average Joe Programmer they produce more high quality work in less time.
But are they really some special superhero? Born with a keyboard in their hands, mind made of linear algebra and visualising complex systems before they can walk? Or just normal...
Revamped Geeklist profiles just released
Today we are proud to announce the launch of a new cleaner redesign for your Geeklist Profile pages! As with many a startup we, too, have launched, discovered and iterated based on what we’ve learned from our users. In doing so we found that surfacing the information that our users were updating and sharing daily while pushing down some of the evergreen data will make for a better user...
November 2012
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Ready, Set, Grow: Join us In Celebrating the Month...
Guest blogpost for Geeklist by: Rafael Alenda, Director, Online Marketing, New Relic, Inc.
[Deploy from this link and Geeklist will match $10 for each install as well! That’s $20 to Mo’vember per install!]
It’s no secret that we love our product, our 30,000 customers and great causes. So when confronted with an opportunity to do something that included all three, we jumped at the...
Supporting Movember in two unique ways
Just a few months ago I got the call from my father. They’d found some ‘abnormal’ cells and would need to do a biopsy… that day. The biopsy fortunately came back with no signs of prostate cancer, but it was a serious awakening for me and my father. I was quickly reminded of the importance of regular checks and knowledge. (Gain knowledge here) — So last week, when...
October 2012
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LESS is more and more is LESS
[Guest blog post by Jason Strimpel, Senior Front-End Engineer at Teradata] Synopsis This post will examine favoring DOM hierarchy replication using CSS LESS and fat CSS rules over CSS best practices to achieve more maintainable CSS in large web applications. At your own Risk I would like to preface this posting with a few disclaimers. I have only been using CSS LESS for a few months and I am not...
How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews, by...
[A guest blog post for Geeklist by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Gayle is the founder / CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com’s #1 best-selling interview book) and The Google Resume. Gayle has worked a software engineer for Microsoft, Apple and Google, and served on Google’s hiring committee. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Quora, or her blog.]
We’ve...
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Hacker Stories: Finding Playground.fm at...
Yesterday I stopped by Singly’s office to check on SF Musictech Hackday. The goal of the event is to build cool stuff that leverages existing music APIs. Here at Geeklist we love discovering new cool apps hackers are building and I figured it would be appropiate to share this more often via our blog or email updates.
Last night I found Playground.fm, a really awesome new app that recommends...
Free Pluralsight Training for Geeklist Members:...
[Guest blog post and exclusive offer from Aaron Skonnard, CEO of PluralSight]
When I first stumbled across Geeklist, it seemed like a match made in heaven for Pluralsight customers.
The Geeklist community is all about socializing developer achievements, exciting code breakthroughs, developer-oriented companies, and building targeted communities around specific “geeky” technical...
A recap of #lxjs from a local's view
[A Guest blog post by Daniel Gomes, Official Geeklist Ambassador to Portugal ]
Last weekend took place one of the most amazing conferences that I have been lxjs 2012! A 2 day non-profit international conference about Javascript that was organized by the community and for the community.
Workshop and Pre-Party
The day before the conference starts, was the day of the workshops and the...
Opening our API to the public with a Global Online...
Opening our API to the public with a Global Online Hackathon [sign up here] Yes! The long awaited Geeklist API are now open for public use. Hoorah!
[ok, well this is the Rails Girls Paris event we organized, but they’re really excited!]
You can read about the many API updates in this blog post or you can go straight to the API page at hackers.geekli.st. As of today, Monday the 1st of...
September 2012
6 posts
What Kindle Means for Android
[A guest blog post by avid Geeklist‘er and 21 year ex-Microsoft’er Charlie Kindel – CEO, BizLogr. Follow Charlie @ckindel]
I still think Amazon would be stupid to build a phone. But I no longer believe they won’t do it. Within the next 6 months Amazon will go big with their own Android based smartphone.
And when they do, it will be the moment that everybody else realizes that...
Most of What You Know About Interviews is Wrong
[A Guest blog post by Volkan Özçelik - Mobile Front-End Engineer at Jive Software]
The subject line is a bit controversial, and “I mean it”.
In this article, I’ll play the Devil’s advocate and try to shed some light on the subtle details of the interviewing process.
Please note that I’m just sharing my honest observations and notes that I’ve taken during...
The first Job Posts are live on Geeklist, are you...
If you’re on Geeklist then you know it’s like a 24/7/365 live Hackathon/Meetup where people are announcing what they’ve built, links and resources, sharing, collaborating and connecting around the world in one giant ^5’ing network. It’s only natural that this past week we rolled out Job posts to share killer opportunities to those in the network interested. With the...
Geeklist API Changes
As anyone that uses Geeklist knows, we are regularly adding new features and improving on existing ones. I have finally brought the API up to date with most of our newest features.
Links
Links have been added to the API with the ability to create or retrieve them multiple ways.
Retrieve by ID
Retrieve by User
Retrieve by Community
Retrieve all sorted by popularity
Links can also be voted on...
We are Out of Beta & Job Postings are live!
We are now open for business and have launched Job Postings! In our mission to make the lives of Geeks around the world better, we have created a unique, seamless and fun way to find companies and for companies to find you. We’re proud to have kicked off our very first day with companies like Amazon’s SoCal A2ZOC division, LA’s hot startup Swagsy and the great Mountain View...
Nodester :: Side-Project to Acquisition in 18...
A Special Geeklist Exclusive Guest Blog post by Chris Matthieu
Nodester :: OpenSource Node.JS PaaS
Nodester was my third bootstrapped side-project startup to be acquired. I was working for Voxeo Labs, the creators of Tropo - a public/private cloud communications platform, who had acquired my second startup called Teleku. When Node.JS first came out, it was a natural fit for asynchronous...
August 2012
6 posts
Giving cred in imagery for the co-founder of...
UPDATE: Note from Jim McKelvey -
“The very first Square reader I built had a brushed aluminum housing - I though it would look cool. It worker OK, but only in my hands. Jack couldn’t get the thing to work. The difference it turned out was that I didn’t touch the reader whereas Jack would stabilize the thing with his hand. The aluminum, being conductive, was picking up his...
Desktop notifications make life better - in case...
As much as I’d like to believe that you have the time to watch the links stream all day, we know you have some serious coding to do. So to help you stay in touch with the great achievements, links and ^5’s happening in Geeklist we’ve rolled out Desktop Notifications.
To find them and turn them on go to your settings (the v arrow next to your avatar in the top right) and choose...
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10 places to learn geeky stuff online for free
It’s true that you can learn almost anything for free online these days. The trick is knowing where to find the information you need, though. These ten sites will help you get your geek on and learn something new.
1. 5min Tech
From tech news and product reviews to quick tips and tutorials, 5min Tech is the perfect place to get your geek fill in just a few minutes. There’s also a...
OH Hai Github users your login to Geeklist is live
You demanded it and we delivered. You can now log in to your Geeklist account using your Github authentication!
As we are growing faster and breaking the half-a-million registered activities mark, more and more developers have been requesting Github sign in, not to mention we are heavy Github users. [here’s our account] So here it is:
[ Note: If you’re already signed up for...
Who is viewing you?
It takes people a while to decide a network is important enough to put a little time into it. We’ve really built many tools in Geeklist to integrate as easily and seamlessly as possible and we now know people are looking at your profile every day. Sometimes only a few, sometimes thousands, but they are looking for to find interesting, like-minded geeks, to learn from your resources and links...
Answering the hackers call for link up-voting and...
Two months ago to the date we released the ability for developers to share news and resources from around the web with the GeekIt bookmarklet. In those short months we’ve logged over 5,000 links as the demand for a voting system poured in. So naturally we delivered… well, specifically Jacob delivered ^5!
Now the links stream has an up-vote and down-vote system, along with viewing the...
July 2012
5 posts
Convos and building developer relationships
Over the past months we’ve been building out our conversation ‘convo’ tools. These are a behind the scenes engine that, for now, are limited to select clients. Built by our own Jon Keating (^5 Jon!) to be a screaming fast and efficient way for developers and hiring managers in companies to communicate, we are excited to share a little glimpse of why so many engineers and...
Engineering Update: Geeklist Desktop Notifications
Today we rolled out the ability to keep track of Geeklist activities from your desktop. To try it out follow the steps on the video.
Enjoy!
Christian Sanz Cofounder
"Are you a nerdpreneur?"
Guest post by Patrick Moran, VP of New Relic (@patrickmoran of @newrelic)
The title of this post belongs to Marc Andreessen, in an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. The premise is simple: All companies - airlines, coffee shops, shoe stores - all of them need to be experts in software development to succeed.
From Marc’s WSJ post:
Why is this happening now?
Six decades...
Introducing the Torque API from BitTorrent [Guest...
[Special Guest Post]
By Patrick Williams (@pwmckenna)
It’s been over a decade since BitTorrent was introduced to the world and since then, we’ve created software that has been downloaded more than a billion times. The protocol distributes large amounts of data over the Internet is used to help scale the user bases some of the most trafficked sites on the web including Facebook, Twitter,...
Javascript is crushing Ruby in Geeklist... the...
Developer communities grow to over 3,500 with Javascript still in the lead at nearly 2,000 members… Who will be the leading community in a month from now?
While racing to see which communities are most popular is exciting, being the most popular community is not really what’s most important. The community that brings value to your daily life is. Sharing resources, ideas, news and...
June 2012
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From The Engineering Team: Adding the "Post...
Continuing on our expansion into the wonderful world of the Open Graph, we are now happy to bring your open source commits into Facebook! What this means is that your Facebook timeline can now include some details on how much code you have been pushing, and here is mine after I created a new project called aws-ssh:
Probably the most interesting time of the project is when it is just starting,...
Reaching the most Popular pages as a developer
find it here:
We know that as developers the very last thing we look for is to be in a popularity contest. But what if the popularity is not based on your clothes, hair or Q&A skills? If you’re being recognized by your fellow geeks, your peers who really appreciate and understand what you do, it is actually pretty awesome.
This weekend we rolled out our “Popular” page...
Who led Pixar's animation system that created...
You don’t have to be a parent to have a true appreciation for great animation and art. We see it every day, but we rarely see, or know, who really was behind building it. I studied animation and illustration at MISD many eons ago, when Macromedia Director was running on my Powermac 6100 and I dreamed of animating for Disney one day. Well, while I didn’t make the cut (4th out of 3...
Who is the real Wikipedia founder?
It’s often the case that people who dedicate passion and years of their lives to a project get swept under the rug, forgotten or are never given proper credit for their achievements. In a recent Achievement Card posted to Geeklist we learn of Larry Sanger,
one of the Wikipedia Founders, who posted “I had the idea for Wikipedia, named it, and led it in its first year”.
In...
WatchHere is a walkthrough screencast of our new Facebook integration which gets into how you can get your Github account linked to Facebook, via Geeklist as well.
We are currently working on getting action links inside Facebook and then… code commits in Facebook! For the first time ever, you are able to see details on code commits inside Facebook. We are really excited about these new features...
Geeks Unite as Geeklist launches out of Private...
For Immediate Release - 06/18/2012
San Francisco, CA - Geeklist announces it has launched out of Private Beta. Now Geeks worldwide can join, invite friends, build communities, create achievement cards and grow their GeekCred™. Geeklist recently became the first company to push code commits into the Facebook Open Graph and they released GeekIt™, becoming the first resource for developers to...
Making the lives of geeks better every day
Let’s change the way Geeks are viewed, help them find each other, connect with each other and connect with companies/brands relevant to them. Let’s give them a platform, a broadcasting platform, to help them share with the world what they have done, things they are proud of, resources they use, things they deserve credit for. So we built Geeklist and here is an overview of what it does...
Facebook gets better for developers: Geeklist...
Each day at Geeklist we work to make life as a developer just a little bit better. We know most of our lives spread into Facebook where our work and personal lives blend together into a balancing act. But it’s not balanced if you consider the amount of time you spend coding. Now, for the first time ever we bring you Code Commits from Github announced straight into the Facebook Open Graph via...
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From the Engineering Team: Facebook Integration
A few weeks ago we launched Facebook integration and have been adding pieces of Geeklist to Facebook’s Open Graph. Initially, we only supported creating accounts and logging in with Facebook IDs. By having more than one login option, you could link your account to both authentication providers and get “login failover” to allow logins to proceed when (not if) Twitter has...
In the early iChatAV days, one of the many things...
Inspiration comes from so many places. On the eve of the Apple WWDC a legendary developer surfaces to announce:
“In the early iChatAV days, one of the many things Steve Jobs called me was a “fuckchop”. When I got to iPod, I thought it would make a nice title.” - Andy Grignon [posted today on Geeklist]
In building Geeklist we believed it would become the greatest place...
Building your Geek network (invites)
Building your Geek network is as much about joining communities as it is about uniting dispersed friends, peers and people around you in a relevant space for Geeks. On Facebook you’ll never really know who built what, on Twitter your links and articles get lost after 30 seconds into the Twitter abyss. In Geeklist it is all part of your Geek persona, earning GeekCred™ and growing your reach...
Geeklist releases the GeekIt™ Bookmarklet for...
It’s been a very busy week here at Geeklist. Oh, and it’s only Monday! Yes, today we released the first ever bookmarklet for Geeks to share their resources. Just drag it to your bookmark bar and… Geek it! (click the picture for gist on easy how to)
When you GeekIt™ the resource link will appear in your profile and in the community you chose to tag it to inside Geeklist.
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