I like JavaScript, and I like jQuery, and I am always interested in improving my skills with those tools. So when I found out that jQuery’s latest conference was going to be held in Boston, less than an hour’s drive from where I live, and that a good friend of mine was going to be [...]

One of the things we believe in very strongly here at Dart is keeping the company lean. We’ve seen start-ups hire too many people, too quickly, and it can get ugly. You end up disorganized, over-managed, and filled with employees who aren’t quite sure what their roles are (often fighting over who gets to do [...]

I have to admit, even though the MVC concept has been around for a long time, I had never really heard of it before Microsoft chose to adopt it for ASP.Net. This is mainly because I’m not a programmer, and also because I haven’t worked extensively with Ruby on Rails, which from what I understand [...]

Here’s something you probably don’t know: BlogShouts actually began life as GameShouts, an idea I had for a website where independent gaming bloggers could get their posts seen by more people. I’ve worked in the video game industry in one way or another for a huge chunk of my professional career, and Gabe and I [...]

We took a week off for the holidays, but we’re back in the saddle and ready to roll on Dart. I’m tweaking a few items on BlogShouts, and also getting back to polishing up our business plan and presentations. Gabe’s working predominantly on shout submission and display — the core piece of functionality that we [...]

Welcome to our website! You don’t know us. Well, if you’re our wives, or a select few of our friends, I guess you might … but most probably you don’t, and that’s okay. We’re Dart Publishing, and we’re not a big company that raised eighty zillion dollars in venture capital and spent it all on [...]