Shout-outs to people who have made major contributions to the birth of infochimps:

Most of all, our friends and family who have supported and encouraged us.

We’ve gotten significant helpful advice from

• Bill Anderson (@band)
• Katherine Sanderson Gray (@thisKat)
• Lee Weintraub, esq.
• Michael Marder, Professor of Physics UT Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
• Marc Yagjian
• Capitol Factory, especially Ian Clarke, Joshua Baer, and Bryan Menell
• Eve Simon, graphical designer
• Simians of all shapes and sizes

The Austin Tech community

• Austin on Rails and especially Damon Clinkscales for indefatigably organizing it.
• Alex Jones, UX stud and social connector
• Silona Bonewald, omnipresent government transparencist.

Website resources

We love these plugins and products:

• Ruby on Rails
  • Cucumber, Webrat, RSpec, machinist, pickle
  • HAML, Sass, Compass, Blueprint
  • Acts_as_versiones, is_taggable, friendly_id
  • Thinking Sphinx, MySQL
  • Authlogic, Ruby OpenID, will_paginate, addressable, RedCloth
  • FiveRuns’ dash
  • capistrano, deprec, integrity
  • Special thanks to Rick “Technoweenie” Olson for everything he has released to the community
  • Ryan Bates’ Railscasts series.
• Sitting behind all that:
  • MySQL, nginx, slicehost
• The Hadoop project.

doodads

• starbox AJAX star rating
• blueprint CSS framework
• Super nifty spinner thingy (“Generated gifs are totally free for use”)
• Many Flickr photographers of Monkeys, Chimps, Apes, Bonobos, Tarsiers and other Simians—see config/initializers/load_monkey_pics.rb
• External link image (GFDL)

• Textile

Intangibles

• Diplo