Ike Walker
Database Architect
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It seems like everybody is obsessed with the World Cup right now: Who’s in, who’s out, who has exceeded expectations and who has disappointed their fans. I’ve been following it as closely as I can, and I find that even when I’m looking at our databases I think about the World Cup.
Given the global nature of the Internet, we serve millions of widgets all around the world every day. We …

This month our friends over at Contegix launched both their newsletter and client spotlight series, and we were very excited to be featured in both!

The client spotlight and newsletter spot featured our CTO Giles Goodwin in a Q&A. Giles spoke about our use of Contegix as our managed hosting provider, how they enable us to deliver awesome widgets and mobile sites to our customers, and how the fit with our future product strategy.

After a four year wait, the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament finally get underway today. Stay up on all the action over the next few weeks with Widgetbox widgets.

Widgetbox widgets and Blidgets (Blog widgets) will keep you current with scores, buzz, photos, and more. If you’re headed to South Africa for the tournament you can also find information on local news, weather, events, and happenings.

We’re in the midst of a special week here at Widgetbox as we celebrate our 100th product release! This Tuesday, like every other Tuesday, marked the end of our weekly product sprint where we pushed new releases and product changes onto the Widgetbox site.
While there is a lot of variation among companies as to how often they push releases, it’s not uncommon for many companies to have releases that happen every few months or even less frequently. Here at Widgetbox our development team decided to implement an agile development …

Matt BastaFormer Widgetbox whiz kid intern and current successful widget developer
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When I first started developing widgets on the Widgetbox platform back in 2006, I never could have anticipated where they would take me. The first widget I developed showed what was happening on http://digg.com/ in a manner similar to Digg Spy. It amassed a total of a staggering three subscribers. Over the course of four years, however, I’ve designed and built more …

Jeff Remer
Software Engineer
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Twitter has never been stingy with their data. With enough expertise, you can do just about anything you can do on Twitter.com off the site using with their extensive REST and Search APIs. Developers have implemented Twitter-based authentication using Twitter as an OAUTH provider, with some websites providing their own version of Twitter status timelines based on the kinds of information they want to display. The sheer number of Twitter …

Nelz Carpentier
Senior Software Engineer
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At Widgetbox, I sometimes get to play around with interesting technologies that are outside of our regular stack. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to use Google App Engine’s Java environment (GAE/J) to prototype a resizing image proxy.
At first, I just developed the prototype in the default GAE/J Eclipse environment until I could deliver a functional POC. After finding the GAE/J capabilities more than adequate for what …