Check out our
nifty Facebook app!

• What is wishli.st?

• wishli.st helps you buy awesome gifts. Check out our first product: a Facebook app.

  We are on a mission to help everyone buy awesome gifts. However, we can't do this alone - we need your help! Please drop us a line with your ideas!

• on gift giving

• 22.Jul
• What should I buy my aunty?

• They’re not easy to buy for, but lets see if we can help

• 17.Jun
• What would David Beckham want for Father’s day?

• What do you buy the man who can buy anything he likes for Father’s Day? Hopefully something off his Wishlist, but failing that here’s what we think David Beckham would want

• 02.Jun
• Context Is King

• The perfect gift is only perfect if it’s in context

• community

• 06.Jul
• A long hard day in the pub

• User testing can be long, hard and expensive. Or you can pay £2.50 per users and get a good sample of the public too boot. Follow our simple guide

• 24.May
• Twitter Makes The World Smaller

• Imagine if there was a way to bet on which bands were going to be popular. If you thought a band had what it takes to be a huge hit then you could bet on their ascent to the top of the charts. Likewise if you thought a currently successful band was on the way [...]

• 24.May
• User Testing with Silverback

• User testing is an important of our development process. When we release a new version of our Facebook app we try to get it in front of people so that we can watch how they use it. The results often yield suprises and help us refine our product and make it easier to use.

  One application [...]

• company

• 17.Jun
• Keeping it local

• Internet retailing and the tech world can lead you to forget about your local area

• 01.Jun
• Handsome Faces(?)

• Who are the Wishlist boys?

• 11.May
• Leaving gifts for Gordon Brown

• With all of the excitement here in the UK about the election it’s easy to forgot that politicians are people too, and that all people like presents.  The big question is what do you buy the Prime Minister as a leaving present?
  Luckily the man himself seems to have provided the answer.  Imagine our surprise when [...]

• for the geeks

• 19.Jul
• Multi-site CodeIgniter application deployment

• Modifying CodeIgniter to run the same code base on multiple sites, switching config automatically.

• 14.Jul
• Moving wishli.st to the new Facebook Graph API

• It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t quick. It took us months. Learn from our mistakes.

• 24.May
• Creating histogram data using SQL

• Histograms (and bar graphs of discrete data) are really really handy when you’re trying to work out how people are using your system. Generating the data for them using SQL is a touch fiddly though. Here’sa simple query to generate some data I’ve just written.
  All the problems stem from the niggle that [...]