Updates, opinions, customer stories, and random musings from the FeedMagnet team.
We're in New York this week meeting with agencies, customers, and prospects - and we've been having a blast. I realized today that what makes our job so much fun are all the amazing creative people we get to interact with.
by Jason Ford on Oct. 26, 2010
Read moreWe believe in the philosophy of not reinventing the wheel if we don't have to. That's why we use Django as our development framework. And that's why we decided to use CheddarGetter - a web service that takes care of all of our recurring credit card billing. We wrote a wrapper for CheddarGetter in Python, called PyCheddar, and have released it as open source so others can take advantage of it as well.
by Jason Ford on Jan. 31, 2010
Read moreWe are a little fanatical about grid-design with www.FeedMagnet.com. We spend time making sure every element of our pages lines up to the pixel with the grid. There are a number of tools that can be used for grid design in CSS, but we chose to use a couple tools that are still a little less common among designers - Sass and Compass - because of the flexibility they provide.
by Jason Ford on Nov. 13, 2009
Read moreOne of our first tasks getting started building FeedMagnet was to pick a development framework. I built the original prototype of FeedMagnet in PHP because it was the language I knew. When I decided to hire a developer and build out a production version of FeedMagnet, I knew I didn't want to stick with PHP for a number of reasons - the main one being that I wanted to develop in a top-notch framework and I didn't feel like CakePHP and CodeIgniter were quite there yet. I've had a number of people ask me how I made the ultimate decision to go with Django, so I decided to write this post to answer that question and hopefully help others who end up in my shoes to make the right decision.
by Jason Ford on Nov. 9, 2009
Read moreFeedMagnet helps business harness social media in ways that are both responsible and impact their bottom line.