http://blog.rorcraft.com We're a virtual team of ruby on rails development specialists spread across Sydney Australia, Hong Kong and Hangzhou China. We speak fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:13:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/11/27/new-social-network-site-launched-for-the-big-question-conference/ We released http://free.ankoder.com a couple of months ago, there's been a steady growth. Many users wanted to download the videos straight to their ipods, and now we've done it. We've relaunched the site as htt://www.ankoder.net and we've given a it a long dued face lift as well. First, sign up for ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/08/21/ankodernet-download-youtube-videos-straight-to-your-ipods/ 为了庆祝今天08北京奥运会开幕，我们非常兴奋地宣布我们将与Zendesk的合作开发helpdesk 2.0并在chinese.zendesk.com推出中文版的禅宗服务台。禅宗服务台（Zendesk）是一个web2.0风格的在线桌面帮助方案。我 们之前曾帮助他们发行iphone接口，现在我们已经实现了禅宗服务台中文市场的本地化。如须协助建立汉化版禅宗客户服务台，请电邮致 rex@rorcraft.com 与我們联络。 同时我们非常高兴地宣布我们终于建立了自己的中文站点 - http://www.rorcraft.com/zh We are very excited to announce our cooperation with Zendesk - helpdesk 2.0 and the launch of a Chinese version of Zendesk at chinese.zendesk.com to celebrate the start of Beijing Olympics 08. Zendesk is a online helpdesk solution in web2.0 style. We've previously helped ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/08/08/rorcraft-chinese-and-zendesk-chinese-on-080808/ http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/07/01/hangzhou-office/ We released a youtube downloader as a demo of our video conversion capability. We've processed more than 1500 videos. It is certainly interesting to see what some people have attempted to convert. There were some links to some porn-tube type video sites. Sorry we don't support those sites (yet.. if ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/03/19/one-month-1500-converts/ Our senior engineer Chris Chan was interviewed in a TVB news program about WiFi security in Hong Kong. He had found security holes in the Legislative Council. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/03/19/our-chis-chan-was-on-tv-for-good-reasons/ Ankoder has experienced down time due to a Amazon wide issue. Many other services that relies on S3 are also affected. This definitely raises an alarm for many AWS users. We will consider some alternatives as a failover solution. I had not expect a large network like Amazon ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2008/02/16/amazon-web-services-downtime/ It has been very busy in the past few months. We were involved in a redesign project, Beautyheaven.com.au, which was subcontracted by Different Solutions. The client was very happy traffic has jumped 4 folds after the launching the new design with SEO and usability improvements. Usually a newly launched redesign ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/12/15/weve-been-hard-at-work/ On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand competed to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. I was a representative member for the Australia team. I am proud to say we came 2nd in this competition and I've made some amazing new ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/08/20/fullcodepress-a-website-24hrs-competition/ I'm very happy to receive the news from Anchor Resources that they've raised the maximum target of 3.5m for the IPO. We've launch the site in April with their prospectus. The site is still in its early stages. I'm sure it'll evolve very quickly and will hear more good news ... http://blog.rorcraft.com/2007/06/20/our-client-has-raised-35m-in-ipo/