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Incase you missed it: Andy was (quickly) in OWH

Andy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:01:49 +0000

The long over due rumor of Verizon carrying the iPhone is finally over. Tuesday Verizon announced that they will carry the iPhone in February 2011. Good news for people waiting for it. Good news for people who are ready for the world to stop rumoring it. :) Ross Boettcher of the Omaha World Herald did a great write up of the news from Tuesday. He even grabbed a quick quote from yours truly Read after the jump.

The Teambox Case Study

Andy — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:00:47 +0000

We have gone through a number of various software for managing projects. Nothing has stood the test of time for us like Teambox. We try to give back to this excellent open source project, so we offered to a do a case study for them. Read the article to see the case study...

Ninth Division at the Apple Store in Village Pointe

Andy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:53:55 +0000

Find us at the Village Point Apple Retail Store in Omaha, NE on June 22 at 6:00PM.

Touch Cam 1.1 Available Now

Andy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:11:15 +0000

Touch Cam version 1.1 is available in the app store. It brings new language support for Spanish and French. German will be submitted as a 1.1.1 release.

Hasani Hunter, now co-founder of Ninth Division

Andy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:48 +0000

Ninth Division has a co-founder, (drum roll please) his name is Hasani Hunter. This is great news and I am extremely excited about this. This announcement could not come at a better time for Ninth Division. The exciting “projects” we have coming up this year will need a team; and not just two developers. When [...]

Welcome 2010 and Happy Birthday [9D]

Andy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:31:41 +0000

With the year 2009 about done, Ninth Division is getting ready to embark in some exciting new territory. Read my thoughts as I reflect on 2009 as I compare 9D to starting a band. This past year was great and I couldn’t ask for a better start to a business. 2010 is already going to [...]

Year Zero; Complete.

Andy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:09:42 +0000

Year Zero? Isn't that a Nine Inch Nails album? Yeah. That's not at all what this update is about. This past year for Ninth Division has not been the first year of business. It's been the incubation time for the company. 2010 is a time for true birth and growth. Year Zero was an album from a band that I truly admire... and Ninth Division is as much a business as it is a band. Being in a band to make it somewhere is just like running a business that you want to carry into the years to come. When I look at how I run Ninth Division, I think about it as if it were a band.

Surviving the Hacker News effect

Andy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:53:10 +0000

When the story hit the front page, I was receiving such an amount of requests for this article I couldn't even keep the server going. It is running as a virtual machine and at many points the server peaked above 80.00 on it's load average. It was so high that the host server shut it down countless times. This comes to hard lesson #1... CACHE! Now this site (not surprisingly) is ran using Wordpress. Luckily that means there are tons of great caching plugins. Use one! I had reminded myself about three times to do that in September and October, but found excuses not to. It's simple and it saved my site.

Announcing ninthdivision.com generation 3

Andy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:58:46 +0000

I am happy to announce that NinthDivision.com has been redesigned from the ground up. The old site was becoming very stale in content and it made it hard for me to feel inspired to write great content. Not to mention the overall colors weren't a good display for the company.

Flight Sites at #13 on iTunes App Store

Andy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:19:37 +0000

Sojern's Flight Sites was the first iPhone application for Ninth Division to be published on the iTunes App Store. After a little over a week of being on the store it stayed in the Top 20 Free Travel applications. Yesterday (Sunday Jan 18, 2009) it hit #13...