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Postfix Relayhost Setup

Postfix Relayhost Setup

Cloud service providers such as Amazon often prevent email sending by default on their EC2 instances to stop spammers. This can be a nuisance when you want to send legit email. You can request for this restriction to be removed, but it can be a bit of a black box

Vim tips, tricks and plugins

Vim tips, tricks and plugins

This post is a note-to-self type of post on Vim tips & tricks. You will also find a bunch of useful plugins listed in this post. This is the place where I write down and explaing things to my self whenever learning a new trick in Vim. The tips and tricks

Digital Flightplan - Takeoff

Are you fascinated by the idea of building mobile / web applications in a better way? Setting the focus on key business functions, preventing overspending, minimizing overhead, maximizing efficiency, and actually getting products shipped to users? If yes, then this guide is for you. This guide is aimed at business and

Tech Startup Resources List

Tech Startup Resources List

A grand list of resources and tools related to web/app development, business and startups. Business Business related resource for building your next startup or improving your current one. SaaS Financial Plan - A financial plan template for SaaS. Founder / Advisor Standard Template - Contract template for startup advisors. Equity

The guide to outsourcing a digital minimum viable product

This is a mega post on outsourcing a digital Minimum Viable Product to test the viability of your idea with real customers. This would be a great read if you're looking to build an MVP for your startup or enterprise and don't have much experience from outsourcing technical projects. This

5 min to a mobile app with Ember & Cordova

5 min to a mobile app with Ember & Cordova

This is a quick guide for going from zero to a working app with all the bells and whistles like livereload, app icons and splash screens setup in about 5 minutes. If all goes to plan. ;) Thanks to Ember Cordova [http://embercordova.com/] project by Isle of Code [https://isleofcode.

Be more productive by knowing your biological prime time

Be more productive by knowing your biological prime time

I recently read Chris Baileys Productivity Project book. It got me interested in measuring what time of the day a person is at his or hers most productive. Know yourself and you can optimize working days and other activities for productivity. Likely you have noticed how your energy, motivation, and

On signing NDAs

On signing NDAs

Recently we have been asked to sign NDAs quite a bit. As a result, we had a long discussion about NDAs and here are our views on them. The problem is that most NDAs are overkill. They do not acknowledge that we have had other clients in the past and

Productive OS X design and development setup

Productive OS X design and development setup

Setting up your mac for design & development is painful. It takes quite a few steps to get to a happy place where you are productive again. This post is a messy, note-to-self kind of list of what needs to be done to get from a blank Mac to the happy

The Little Things

The Little Things

The web has been around for a good while. Still many little things are more often wrong than right. We should do better. Here's a list of little, easily fixable things that greatly affect the user experience. 1. When you have a signup form, don't restrict the complexity of the

Lessons learned in 2015

Lessons learned in 2015

This is our top three lessons learned from web consulting & building digital products in 2015. TLDR: 1. Consulting: Small client projects require comparatively more effort than larger ones. 2. Products: Building digital products is almost easy - acquiring and keeping users is really, really hard. 3. Sideprojects: Building side projects

Web design inspiration

Web design inspiration

Here's a categorized list of our favourite agency and product websites we've saved for inspiration. Agency sites Looking at agency sites is especially interesting because that's where the agencies get to do their very own thing. Your vision, your execution - no limits. http://blacknegative.com/ http://www.doctorjekyll.com/

Temple.fi - For better work days

Temple.fi - For better work days

Temple is a simple web app to motivate you to build healthy habits during the working day. You can find it at https://temple.fi. We're using Temple to keep our work days at the office productive and healthy. The app reminds you to take breaks and reach set goals

Localizing what's global, Refindr

Localizing what's global, Refindr

A year ago we wrote a short note on one of our side projects: Refindr. To recap, Refindr is basically a web based map application similar to Craigslist lost and found. Users can leave heart shaped pins on the map and share their story: Who they met & where did this

Hacking live client websites

Hacking live client websites

More often than one would like, you need to make changes to a live web site. This can be due to working on a small budget or with legacy systems, where there's no separate development environment available. It seems we run into this most often with projects built on PHP

Teach your Hubot to talk with Domainr

Teach your Hubot to talk with Domainr

We often talk about new interesting web app ideas. One integral part of coming up with a name for a new projet is to find a suitable and free domain name. We use tools like Domainr to make the task a bit easier. The talks often happen on Slack and

Working from home

Working from home

Foreword: Everything you see at Why working from home is both awesome and horrible, at the Oatmeal is true. Summer's almost over### While planning for the upcoming fall, I came to realize that I’ve been working from home (or anywhere but a traditional office) for the best part of

Amazon Route 53 and Scandinavian letters

Amazon Route 53 and Scandinavian letters

A while back I was setting up some sites for a Finnish customer using Amazon Route 53 [http://aws.amazon.com/route53/] as the DNS provider. It wasn't quite as easy as I would have imagined. The hosted zone could not be saved because: Domain Name contains invalid characters or

Dubai coworking spaces

Dubai coworking spaces

I worked from Dubai for three weeks and got to check out a couple of the more popular coworking spaces aimed at freelancers and mobile workers. Here's my thoughts on them. MAKE Business hub### My first business coworking space visit in Dubai was to MAKE located in Al Fattan Office

Get another chance - Refindr.com

Get another chance - Refindr.com

Night's been good. Then butterflies in your stomach as you see that someone for the first time. You exchange sparkling looks, a few words, you dance, you touch, you talk and you fall deep into those eyes. Then BOOM - it's all over. You went to see your friends and

Enter Wingmen Journal

Enter Wingmen Journal

Nice, you're here! Welcome to our journal where we share what we do and learn along the way. Wait, Wingmen what? Wingmen is a small web design and development agency based in Helsinki, Finland. We believe that small and tightly knit teams are the best way to build high quality