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Shindig is owned and operated by Andrew Burke out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Products/Services
Remembary is the diary app for iOS that connects to your photo library as well as Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds to help you remember what happened today - or last week.
It started as a friendly spoof of shipsstarthere.ca, and now it has over 250 pictures of science fiction and Nova Scotia. T-shirts, posters, calendars, and more available in the online store
Shindig manages and hosts the Store Ordering System, a web-based Software-As-A-Service application for managing retail signage programs.
Shindig is also the business home of
Andrew Burke
Shindig (and Andrew) can be hired for Ruby on Rails and iOS development.
Recent Blog Posts
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This Is Nowhere: GPS and Wayfinding and More UX
One of the keys to the This Is Nowhere app was helping the user find their way to destinations - but not being *too* helpful. GPS was important to this, but there were still many challenges. -
This Is Nowhere: The Single-Button UX
The This Is Nowhere client app had some challenging usability requirements, but we came up with something that worked pretty well. -
This Is Nowhere: Don’t Just Stand There!
The journey from idea to live is a long one, and takes lots of prototypes and false starts - which for me always have to be real working software. -
This Is Nowhere: Finding My Duck
I’ve worked on my software projects over the years, but I also have two English degrees and was a drama club nerd back in High School and College. I think I may have found the perfect project for me. -
Finding Burgers Fast: My DIY Halifax Burger Week Site
Every year, Halifax Burger Week comes out with a big fancy WordPress-based site with maps, slideshows, blog posts, and more. I just want to know where the burgers are, so I make my own light version. -
"This is Nowhere" at PodCamp Halifax 2018
I'm doing a cool new project with Halifax's Zuppa Theatre. Here's a talk I gave about it at PodCamp Halifax. -
The Diary Diaries: Fixing Remembary's Facebook Connection
I recently did a major update to my iOS "Connected Diary" app Remembary and had a lot of trouble getting properly connected with Facebook. Here's how I got it working. -
Special Leap Day Edition of "Some Weird Things About Time"
Last year I created a conference talk called "4 Weird Things About Time" - in honour of Leap Day 2016, I've excerpted 2 of the weird things into their own abridged version and put it onto YouTube. -
What's Up With Remembary
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Can't get pg_dump To Work Now That Heroku Has Upgraded Postgresql to 9.4?
This caught me today and I couldn't find the fix for it mentioned anywhere else - so I thought I'd write it up to help anyone else out there having similar trouble.