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Geekery in Hawaii

So, my first attendance to the Manoa Geeks event was on Thursday, July 31 at HMSA. It was a pretty nifty experience, what with about 70 people attending in person and some others (20? Not sure) via chat. It was nearly full when I arrived and a pretty good indicator of the sold out status was the fact the pizza was wiped out shortly after the geeks were given the green light to mob the tables.

After the dust of dinner settled, a few people came up to demo and talk about products they were developing, from Labels That Talk, to New View Hawaii. Of particular interest that I might mention at work, though, is Errorlytics. This web service captures 404 errors and can use an appropriate redirect to the correct page. I think the only main drawback is when working with very large sites one would have to program in the redirects via rules. If the rules could be vague, like if the page is supposed to be a special offers page (rather than a specific page) then redirect to the main page listing special offers, it would probably be really nifty. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get a full demo of it due to network issues. I know, I know, a full house of geeks and couldn’t get it to work. Stuff happens. :P

Aside from that, Eric Nakagawa from I can Has Cheezburger attended and mentioned he’s working on an ICHC book. Also, Bytemarks Cafe is going live this Wednesday, be sure to catch it! I was surprised, I know I shouldn’t be, to find out that one of the folks working at HMSA knew several people I currently work with.

All in all, the experience was great and while I didn’t talk to many people, it was cool to soak in the atmosphere. An event I wouldn’t mind attending again.

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3 Responses to “Geekery in Hawaii”

  1. Manoa Geeks for July 2008 says:

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    August 7, 2008 at 8:22 am
  2. Jared Fine says:

    Thanks for your note about Errorlytics. Just wanted to address the concern you had. Rules can be regex’s if you like so it’s quite easy to redirect multiple URI’s if you wanted to. We’re still very much in Beta but if you find any features you’d like added or changed don’t hesitate to let us know!

    August 18, 2008 at 7:12 am
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