Thu Oct 29
Riot is a unit testing library that I've been using on a few new Helicoid products/features, and some of my open source projects. It has incredibly concise syntax, and I liked it so much that I wr...
What we do
Products: We build agile web applications aimed at individuals, freelancers and small businesses. Our apps have free and paid accounts, mobile phone support and web APIs.
Research: We're currently designing Mac desktop software and iPhone apps.
Commissions: Helicoid commissions art, get in touch for more info.
About us
Team: Alex Young is the company founder, developer and designer of Helicoid's apps. Yuka Young is a copywriter and manages customer support. Kevin Ford is our systems administrator.
Location: Helicoid is based in London, England.
Press: Visit our press resources for high quality icons and more.
Other projects
- 日本語のブログ Japanese Blog
- TweetFu: Track trends on Twitter
- Open source
Mon Jul 20
We build and maintain Rails apps at Helicoid, and use Linux servers. By default Rails apps generate a lot of logging, even when logging is set to :warn. However, these logs are useful because the...
Mon Jul 13
I'm working on a series of articles about deploying Rails apps. It's based on things I've learned at Helicoid, and it's called Agile Deployment. Read it over at my personal blog.
Wed Jul 01
As well as Loom, I've been working on a few other open source projects funded by Helicoid. The biggest so far is JsChat which is an MIT-licensed JSON-based chat system with a nifty web interface:
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Fri Jun 26
Loom is our issue tracking system. It evolved from Bugtagger, which I created for internal use in 2006. Loom has a few nifty features: the bug report form automatically snoops browser and OS deta...
Wed Apr 15
We use Secure Trading for Helicoid's payment processing. I wrote a payment processor plugin for our apps about two years ago, and it's been in production since then. A few people have asked m...
Fri Mar 06
This article is republished from Quite Useful (a guide to useful things).
This article is an introduction to iPhone development. You can use it to:
Decide if iPhone development is right for you
Un...
Fri Feb 20
We've recently added exception logging to Loom. There's an open source rails plugin which you can use to integrate Loom with your Rails apps. The API is simple so we'll probably collect plugins a...
Sat Feb 14
Tumblr can be extended heavily by editing the templates and by adding services through JavaScript. I just wrote this ShareThis JavaScript that will automatically add ShareThis buttons to your...
Wed Feb 11
The Helipad iPhone client has been released on the App Store for ?2.99. It'll sync all your Helipad documents so you can access them offline on your iPhone. It syncs both ways so you can add, edi...