Sometimes I think Oli and I have the best job in the world! Check this out… Everyone now and then we buy random gifts for our user’s from their wishlist. We’ve even reduced how much we spend on advertising so that we can buy you more presents! Happy birthday to another wishli.st user! ‘Like’ wishli.st [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 what you [...]
CodeIgniter and the Amazon API
We love CodeIgniter (you might have noticed) and we love Amazon. We even love the Amazon API, but lets be honest, it’s not an easy playmate in fact she’s a cruel mistress. We’re using her to search for products using the Product Advertising API (which is nothing to do with adverts and everything to do [...]
Getting CodeIgniter to play nicely with Facebook
Here at Wishli.st we love Code Igniter. It’s a light weight PHP framework which doesn’t get in your way, but provides some great library funcitonality right out the box, as well as a suite of debugging tools and all the other things that make code frameworks a good idea. Getting CI and Facebook to play [...]
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 [...]
