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Here’s a new site I’m working on that helps tennis players connect and form hyper-local comunities:

TennisMetro.com

Unsurprisingly, it’s built on top of CommunityEngine, but with a lot of tennis-specific features added on. At the moment, it’s focused on tennis courts and players in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area (Minneapolis & St. Paul).

With TennisMetro, players can subscribe to their favorite local courts, and meet other people who play there. I’m an avid tennis player myself, and I was frustrated because I knew there were loads of good players at my local court, but I had no good way of connecting with them.

You’ll probably hear more from me on this next spring, when tennis season gears up again, but for now, check out the site and let me know if you have any feedback (esp. Twin Cities people).

Well, I wanted to learn how to write a Facebook application, so I though Teacherly’s wordsearch creator would be a fun one to port. Check out Wordsearchtastic! on Facebook; it runs on the same codebase as Teacherly (using CommunityEngine, of course, was a cinch).

Wordsearchtastic makes it fun and easy to create wordsearch puzzles on Facebook, share them with your friends and see who can finish them fastest. Enjoy!

I’m happy to introduce a tool that makes installing and deploying CommunityEngine much easier. It’s called CommunityEngine-Setup:

http://github.com/bborn/communityengine-setup/tree/master

Along with the new CommunityEngineServer Amazon EC2 ami I’m making available (ami-cbc226a2), CommunityEngine-setup makes it super easy to get started using CE.

The CommunityEngineServer ami is a server image with all the CE requirements baked in (including rmagick, which always seems to be a pain to install). Then, you can use CE-Setup to get a fully functioning CE application installed on your server, complete with a git repository and working deploy scripts.

Enjoy! (And remember, this is an early release, so please let me know if you find bugs)

Just wanted to announce that I’ve thrown up a corporate site for Curbly, LLC (the company behind Curbly, WeeBabyStuff, and all the other sites I talk about on this blog). I figured it made sense to tie all of my various endeavours up in one place, so, here it is!

That is all. Move along.