Ok…maybe I should say, “MC Hammer *will* drink Ritual Coffee”. Now, the story behind the crazy blog title, and the photo. This past Saturday I went to Startup School, which is a one-day free seminar sponsored by the good folks at Y-Combinator. Given that not everyone who reads this is Read more…
I just returned from the big island of Hawaii where a few things happened. First, and most importantly, Kristi and I got married. Neither of us are into the big wedding thing, so it was just the two of us, Pinkie the wedding coordinator from the hotel, and our local Read more…
We usually send these updates directly to our users via email, but thought blogging about the updates going on over here may be interesting to a wider audience. This past Friday, when the rest of the coffee world was (hopefully) getting some rest and relaxation, we rolled out about a Read more…
Ted’s last blog post on the future of coffee cupping was very well-timed. In the latest issue of Roast Magazine, there’s a great pair of articles which take two stances on the numeric scoring system which is found throughout the specialty coffee industry: http://bit.ly/bOUXXk The first article, by Shawn Steinman Read more…
One thing I find fascinating is trends and statistics. I have some monitoring set up using munin so that we can keep track of all sorts of server stats….number of web requests served, MySQL queries, memory usage, etc. It’s all that good stuff that any good (or paranoid) web developer Read more…
This past Thursday, at approximately 3:30 pm Pacific Time, we experienced out first site outage. I set up some basic monitoring through Pingdom which checks that our site is online and healthy every five minutes. I got an email at about 3:30 alerting me that there was a problem. At Read more…
In terms of the questions we get regarding RoastLog, the one we get most often isn’t even about RoastLog, per se. The one area of complication for our system, and any temperature measuring system, is how exactly to accurately and precisely measure what you’re interested in. In our case, that’s Read more…
When Ted, Ryan and I got together and started working on RoastLog, it was very clear from the beginning that we all wanted to form a company which treated its customers like people with valid and important feedback, rather than like people who just paid us. Our whole product is Read more…
It’s official….last night at approximately 2am, roastlog.com officially came online. We’re at the SCAA convention right now, setting up and getting ready for the convention to open tomorrow. If you’re at the show, come by and say hi. We’re pretty excited about our official launch…hopefully you are too. If you Read more…
Here we are, less than a week away from the 2010 SCAA conference. One year ago, I determined that this was the deadline…..RoastLog had to go from a really rough prototype to a real business with a real product by SCAA 2010. I remember that plane ride home from Atlanta. Read more…