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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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The Best Thing I Ever Did To Promote My App
Got long-term impact for building awareness of my app with this One Weird Trick. -
If You Build It, They WON'T Come
Why Field of Dreams is bad business advice -
#deployaday, My Big Hairy Plan for 2015
My New Year's Resolution for 2015: get something new out into the world every day - no matter how small. -
Extracting Plain Text from an NSAttributedString
Sometimes you want to get just the plain text out of a rich-text NSAttributedString in iOS or OS-X. Nobody seems to have written this down anywhere else, so here's how it's done. -
My Year of "Hits" Part 2: Remembary Rolling
Part 2 of my presentation at PodCamp Halifax 2012, featuring many lessons learned from finally reaching cruising altitude in the App Store. -
My Year of "Hits" Part 1: Remembary Rises (and Stumbles)
Part 1 of my PodCamp Halifax 2012 presentation, covering a very tumultuous 2011. Includes surprise fame and nerve-wracking bug hunts. -
Handy Little Test Method to Check for Translations in Rails Apps
A handy snippet to help in testing multilingual Rails apps. -
My Suddenly Slow-Waking MacBook Air
My 2011-vintage MacBook Air used to start instantly. Then it stopped. I fixed it - and here are some thoughts on it. -
Indie App PR: Keeping Control of Your Tone
How to keep your cool while handling trolls - and just plain unhappy people. -
A Quick Note on 'clone' in Rails 3.2
I recently upgraded one of my business apps from Rails 2.1 to Rails 3.2, and I discovered a sneaky and dangerous "gotcha": the 'clone' method doesn't.