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Littlelines at erubycon Conference

2008-08-04T01:49:00Z

Littlelines will take short drive down the road to join our neighbors in Columbus for the erubycon conference starting on August 15th. Really looking forward to Charles Nutter's talk on JRuby and Chris Wanstrath on Git. Littlelines will take short drive down the road to join our neighbors in Columbus for the erubycon conference starting on August 15th. Really looking forward to Charles Nutter's talk on JRuby and Chris Wanstrath on Git.

If your in the Columbus area and want to meet up, let us know. Hope to see you there!

Outsource to middle America

2008-03-14T01:42:00Z

Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com wrote a good article on 18 tips on saving money running a startup. Here at the Littlelines headqarters we certainly follow a few of them - Macs, second monitors, Google mail, expensive chairs. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com wrote a good article on 18 tips on saving money running a startup. Here at the Littlelines headqarters we certainly follow a few of them - Macs, second monitors, Google mail, expensive chairs. Number eighteen is particularly interesting to us since we are located in the heart of middle America.

“ Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don't live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pay $8 to dry clean a shirt--hire them!

We are happy to oblige! Thanks Jason for recognizing the sometimes overlooked talent located only a few hours away.

Part of the team

2008-01-23T22:27:00Z

The best part about working in a virtual setting definitely has to be the different personalities that come together on a project. You can gain a friendship with people you'll most likely never meet face to face, collaborating on a like-minded goal from literally hundreds of miles away. The best part about working in a virtual setting definitely has to be the different personalities that come together on a project. You can gain a friendship with people you'll most likely never meet face to face, collaborating on a like-minded goal from literally hundreds of miles away.

This was definitely true on a recent project. Pixelmatrix, Andrew Wilkinson of Teampages, who impressed us with their drive to create a dynamic community of athletes. Matt and I handled the full website design and contributed to the developement process.

Another perk to this particular project was the opportunity for me to design 19 sports-specific icons. Instead of going with the typical web 2.0 high gloss crystalized candy-like icon, I wanted to give these a grit and realism that set them apart from the masses, while maintaining the feel of the site. My favorite had to be the "Catch All," which needed to encapsulate a general sports feel (it was used for any other sport unspecified on the site). I decided to go with a sports bag filled with sports gear spilling out. Here's a sample of it and a few others:

You can check out a few more details about the project over here. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the project. We had a blast.

What a Start!

2007-11-18T17:16:00Z

We've been really busy here at the LittleLines headquarters. Since we started the company in July, we've been working non-stop with clients from New York to Victoria Canada. I thought it would be fun to list some of the tools we use daily to keep our projects running smoothly. We've been really busy here at the LittleLines headquarters. Since we started the company in July, we've been working non-stop with clients from New York to Victoria Canada. I thought it would be fun to list some of the tools we use daily to keep our projects running smoothly.

MacBook Pros - Josh and I both use MacBooks Pros to do our work. Great operating system, powerful Intel processors, long battery life, and very portable. Need I say more?

Basecamp - Essential project management tool for working remotely. We manage all our projects with basecamp. It's simple, easy, and cheap.

Freshbooks - Painless billing and more. Great tool for tracking time, creating estimates, and managing client invoices.

Google Apps - All of our email, appointments, and documents are managed by Google.

LinkedIn - Keeping in touch with our friends. We pride ourselves on customer satisfaction and we use LinkedIn to help us manage our business relationships.

SliceHost - We host our websites with SliceHost on a couple Ubuntu Linux virtual private servers.

TextMate - I do all my development work using TextMate.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator - Josh does most if not all is magic with these two tools.

Proudly hosted by SliceHost

2007-10-18T22:32:00Z

LittleLines, LLC is proudly hosted by SliceHost. We first signed up with SliceHost back in June with a mere 256MB slice and has been rock solid. For $20 a month, we got our own virtual private server. Which means we can install, customize, and remove anything we want. LittleLines, LLC is proudly hosted by SliceHost. We first signed up with SliceHost back in June with a mere 256MB slice and has been rock solid. For $20 a month, we got our own virtual private server. Which means we can install, customize, and remove anything we want.

That is exactly what we did. We installed Ubuntu Linux, Apache 2.2, Ruby on Rails, Subversion, and MySql. Furthermore, we tweaked and optimized each of these apps to fine tune the server to suit our needs. As our visitors grow, so can our servers. With the super-easy to use administration tool, we can add more memory and hard drive space to our slice in just minutes.

Welcome to Littlelines.

2007-10-09T22:23:00Z

On behalf of the two bros, I’m taking it on myself to one-up my older brother and be the first to ever post on the Littlelines bro blog. I win.

We’ve spent the last few weeks finalizing the design on Littlelines, striking a balance between web 2.0 standards and an organic, fun aesthetic. It’s an evolving process, like everything on the web, but we’re happy with the results.

We’ve jumped right into the development scene, and it’s been a quick ride already with the projects (and happy clients) filing through our virtual doors with big smiles on their faces. Matt’s working wonders with Ruby on Rails (his specialty), Drupal and other such web treasures, and I’m hitting a stride in my graphics that’s as strong as ever.

It’s a pretty exciting time, and like a giant web 2.0 skyline, the future is full of bright, shiny, gradient-filled skies and lime green fields of grass.