http://www.uberbitching.com I am the "Unknown Tech Guy". This blog will follow any info that is related to Boss Bitching.com. Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:48:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been receiving some emails asking about the technology used to build bossbitching.com. The website is built with Ruby on Rails (RoR) using a My SQL database. The website is hosted at TextDrive. The reasons for which RoR was chosen are as follows: I wanted to get something up quick. RoR ... http://www.uberbitching.com/boss-bitching-built-in-ror-ruby-on-rails/ The CBC (Canda's National Broadcaster - à la BBC) has a Bad Boss Poll. I think it's worth doing. The questions are: 1. Has your boss ever embarrassed you in front of co-workers? a) Yes b) No 2. Does your boss have a tough time making decisions? a) Yes b) No 3. Is your boss a poor ... http://www.uberbitching.com/bad-boss-quiz/ On October 16 it is National Boss Day. This is a day designed for employees to do soemthing nice for their boss. There are some bosses that deserve such treatment. Even the majority of the bosses that people post about on bossbitching.com probably are good in some ways; of course ... http://www.uberbitching.com/october-16-is-boss-day/ Forbes posted an interesting article on their website today. They mention in the article that the top reason for hating a job is "a difficult boss.". The article goes on to give some good advice on how to deal with the situation. They suggest that you should not quit ... http://www.uberbitching.com/forbes-asks-do-you-hate-your-job/ On August 30th BossBitching.com was in the daily Yahoo! Picks email. In the email they feature one website as their top pick for that day and then 3 subsequent picks. BossBitching.com was pick number one of the 3 subsequent picks. That makes it the 2nd best pick for that day. ... http://www.uberbitching.com/yahoo-picks-august-30th/ I'm happy to announce that the traffic is steady at Boss Bitching.com. So far we have attracted just over 20K uniques (20,658) and almost 90K in page views (89,845). This is an average of 4.35 pages per unique. It's very exciting. We are getting traffic and visitors from all over ... http://www.uberbitching.com/20k-uniques-in-17-days/ On Saturday August 19 the site (Boss Bitching.com) got an onslaught of traffic. The majority of the traffic came overnight from India due in large part to the an article in the Indian Times' website - the article captures very well the main idea of Boss Bitching.com. They compare the Boss ... http://www.uberbitching.com/indian-times-similar-sites/ Google Analytics records that Boss Bitching.com has the following stats for the first 7 days (Aug. 8 to 14): Average: 4.37 P/V Visits: 14,913 Pageviews: 65,222 Those seem pretty good. This week the Press Release will be sent out to the general public. http://www.uberbitching.com/week-1-stats/ The guys over at TechCrunch have posted an article about Boss Bitching.com. And we are getting a spike of traffic right now. They posted within 2 hours of me sending the release. They had some favorbale thing to say in their article. Some of the comments are a bit hard but ... http://www.uberbitching.com/techcrunch-posts-article/ Well, tonite is the night. I'm sending out the Press Release to get the word out. Let's hope there is a good response from folks. http://www.uberbitching.com/sending-out-the-press-release/