There are a few things that help us run from day to day here at RustyBrick. One is caffeine the other is a good sense of humor. Today both of these things came together and combined into something great, a prank on Barry.
First a little bit of back story...
Four of the RustyBrick elite have been braving out the main entrance of our Rockland office for years...
Now that we have grown and I moved into my new office it was time to put up a Mezuzah on the new doorway.
"A mezuzah is affixed to the doorframe in Jewish homes to fulfill the mitzvah (Biblical commandment) to inscribe the words of the Shema ” (Wikipedia)...
For a really long time now, we have been cramming our coders into our tight office space. A few months back, we finalized our temporary expansion plans by working out a deal to take over some of the available space from our office neighbor...
After many long months of waiting for full Hebrew support on the Android mobile operating system, Android development at RustyBrick is now in full swing. The latest version 2.2 of Android, called Froyo, includes the Hebrew font pack and some other RTL languages...
So now that we have plans to add more space, we need to hire more people. Obviously, we cannot have space that is not being used - that wouldn't be efficient, would it?
Seriously, we have a few job openings and I wanted to let you know we revised our job descriptions for those openings...
Today we received a huge delivery of sushi. It contained 40 rolls of sushi, and there are about 6 pieces in a roll - so that is 240 pieces. Not to compare my clients, but this totally beats donuts on launch day...
As some of you know, at least the ones who read it on my personal blog, I was on national TV for the first time in my life.
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams asked me to be interviewed for the big announcement of Google Instant, primarily because they saw my predictions and knew they were...
I was out on the road and spotted this bumper sticker. The bumper sticker can catch the eye of two types of people. People like me and an obvious other group...
I do these posts every now and then and figured it's a good time to post an update. In a period of about two and a half months, I will be on 5 round-trip flights and four or five conferences. Where to exactly?
SMX East October 4-6:
This one is local for me, so no flight...
This morning, we opened the fridge to find a Diet Coke that blew up. The fridge is on the fritz, it is freezing things even though we turned up the temperature. So last night, this can of coke froze, and cleanly took off the top of the can. I've never seen this happen before...
Rosh Hashanah is right around the corner and that means many are saying or will be saying Selichos daily/nightly. I am happy to say that we were able to get Selichos for Ashkenaz users, by partnering with Davka. The Selichos is Minhag Lita and is available in version 4.7 of the iPhone Siddur...
I am excited to announce that we now have english translation available for Nusach Edut Mizrach. It has been a long wait, first came English Ashkenaz iPhone Siddur, then English Sefard Siddur and now we have finally introduced English for Nusach Edut Mizrach. This is available in version 4.7 of the iPhone...
I am so happy to be able to help bring back the informal Search Marketing Expo event back to Israel. The event is named SphinnCon and it is the largest SEO/SEM focused Israel-based conference. You can register right now for only $75...
We have had our share of Rabbis stop by the office before but I wanted to tell you about a recent quick visit by Rabbi Moshe Tendler...
A few days ago a client made a joke about software/web development companies (i.e. us?). It was generally along the lines of “they just charge you for work that other people already have done...
I am excited to announce we may have a temporary solution for our lack of space problem here in the office.
Our office neighbors are willing to lend us two of their offices and use of their conference room until our lease is up. By then, we should know better what we want to do and would have more...
As many of you know, I have five bars in the office due to purchasing a MicroCell for the office. It works well, has some sporadic issues here and there, but overall, we are all happy with it.
Then Alex had to one-up me by getting a free MicroCell from AT&T...
I was checking our stats today and was curious what type of user base is using mobile devices to view our site...
Image credit: Cranky Yellow
RustyBrick is doing well, we are growing at a safe but nice pace. But we are in the same office space as we were in 2002. In 2002 we had a total of 3 people in a space of about 1,025 square feet. Starting this Monday, we will have 16 people in the same space...