Wow, it’s been two weeks since the last BlogShouts update, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on the site. Not by a long shot! We’ve pushed out a bunch of new fixes and features, including at least one thing that wasn’t even on the list of pending features. To quote Captain Willard, from Apocalypse [...]

For a while now, Gabe and I have been working on BlogShouts. Not all of that time has been spent in development — first we had to come up with the idea and flesh it out, then we had to write a complete business plan and PowerPoint deck (not as easy as it sounds!). After [...]

It’s been another busy period over here at Dart. We’ve been working hard to take BlogShouts from ULTRA BETA to plain ol’ beta, and I think we’ve just about hit that point. This is exciting, because it means we get to really ramp up our efforts to attract bloggers to the site. We’ve got 220+ [...]

We’ve been rolling out features, fixes and improvements to BlogShouts right and left for the past ten days, so I thought I’d do another update on what’s happening with the site. I love the tech we’re using — it’s really made it a breeze to quickly change the site. Sometimes we roll out two, three, [...]

It’s been a busy few weeks for us over here at Dart! First, we went on a bit of a crazy streak with BlogShouts, fixing bugs and finishing features like madmen, and then running a bit of a private beta with friends. Then I moved to Providence, RI so that my wife can go back [...]

As we wrap up the final few bugs fixes and feature additions that we want to have ready before BlogShouts goes live this month, I ran into a minor bit of CSS/JavaScript wackiness that was annoying me. I wanted alternating “Shout Cards” to have different margin widths, but I didn’t want Gabe to have to [...]

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 [...]

Where does the time go? You must understand, dear readers (all six of you) that BlogShouts is still at this time a work of love for Gabe and I. Dart Publishing, on the other hand, has become an actual commercial entity with actual clients, who expect actual web work to actually be delivered. This, in [...]

Do you remember that scene in the movie Creepshow where the old, rich jackass’s apartment is filling up with cockroaches, and he’s freaking out and screaming, and spraying bug spray everywhere, and it’s crazy? That’s kind of where we’re at right now! We are officially in bug-stomping mode on BlogShouts, which is a pretty awesome [...]