We launched a Discourse forum for the Inventables Community last month. It is a real hit with our customers and is quickly gaining popularity. The best part about Discourse (at least for developers) is that it is open source and built on a familiar stack of technologies (Rails, Postgres, Redis). So let’s start hacking on it!

If you’re a frequent user of e-commerce websites, you’re probably familiar with the lists of related products these sites often feature to help customers find what they’re looking for on the store. Amazon, in particular, sports several such lists on every page, including “Frequently Bought Together” and “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought.”

“I’m fully charged by this idea.”

Could there be more reciprocity between the way programmers and designers think than what most in our industry have traditionally believed?

Lately there have been a lot of headlines about what motivates us in the workplace. In this talk, Dan Pink boils it down to two things:

As of May 2010, Inventables will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6. The reasons for this are numerous and varied and range from the technical, to the methodological, to the ethical, to the practical.

One of the many great things about working at Inventables is that we, the development team, are continually afforded the opportunity to experiment with—and even implement—cutting edge web technologies like CSS3, HTML5, Typekit, and many others. Because we’re small and nimble we are able to adapt quickly to the changing landscape of the modern web. It’s a great atmosphere in which to create.

In our last post we talked about how Inventables migrated from a MySQL server running locally on an EC2 instance to the Amazon RDS service.

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