Josh Petersen
Seattle

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News: How about a nightcap?  — 2 years ago

Well, we are in the final push on our latest release we’ve codenamed “nightcap”. We are down to about 6 bugs we are working on before we shift gears and start in on the next release: “cupcake”. As you may know, all our releases are named after My Little Ponies, so we will pretty much never run out of syrupy sweet code names.

Nightcap “caps” off about a 4 month focus on 43 Places. We made a lot of progress turning the site over to our users—making it easier to report and correct errors on the site, easier to add places, and added the ability to add events. A few of the newest things you might notice on the site are local “badges” given to acknowledge the locals who have added their knowledge to the site. We also want to add badges for the folks who correct and add data to the site, for the folks who write great stories, and the folks who take such great photos. What else deserves a badge?

We’ve also added neighborhood tabs to the cities on the site. If you know of a neighborhood in Barcelona or Pittsburgh (or anywhere else) please add it! We’d love to get all the neighborhoods in the world added to the site.

Thanks for all your help with nightcap – and if you have more suggestions – throw them our way!

Comments:

cranberrygoddess
Canberra

Should I ask...

why grown men name things after my little ponies?

Or is that subject best left alone in the closet?

NedRaggett
Costa Mesa

I would make an R. Kelly reference

Or would that be a Tom Cruise one?

(Cranberry—we do this because Transformers aren’t hip anymore, and we Mere Males want to be on the cutting edge. I might be using the royal ‘we,’ granted.)

mackro
Seattle

Have you heard of the My Little Pony or Porn Actress quiz?

Sorry, completely random stream of consciousness there.

I welcome this liberated internal naming scheme in a software environment. It sure beats sci-fi authors, astronomical bodies, or Pink Floyd albums—for once!

NedRaggett
Costa Mesa

You speak, I presume

With the heartbreak of experience.

mackro
Seattle

It started getting difficult

when we had to start renting the actual movies to get more actress names for the projects. We were really busy…

Oh wait, you mean the old school days.

NedRaggett
Costa Mesa

I can hear the cheap drumbeats now

I would, though.

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JudithKD
New Hampshire

No. But it sounds like a total kick!

Link please if it isn’t bogus?

jkd

mackro
Seattle

Oh my. What a strange revive.

But knock yourself out: http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html

JudithKD
New Hampshire

Hah!

I flunked it, no surprise.

My Little Pony was hot when I was out of college and I’ve never been into movie porn….

Funny, you really can’t tell the difference by the names. And what does that say about either the kids’ toy companies or the porn movie industry, hmmm?

Thanks!

jkd

Melissa Axel
Denver

Sadly, I have...

saved that as a possible future livejournal post. Pathetic, I know. And I hate pron. But that quiz was too good.

I am, however, a sucker for the old original ponies. I still have a box of them here somewhere… be right back, um… [Melissa does not return for five hours, maybe the ponies will help her reactivate this goal]