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Posted June 25th, 2010 by randall
After a long hiatus Clickpass is back under active development. Clickpass is also moving.
I’m Randall the Clickpass Engineer. Early Tuesday morning (6.29.2010) I’m going to be moving Clickpass to it’s new home on Heroku. This means some downtime for you (approx. 3 hours). The time of day with the least impact appears to be around 2 A.M.
As part of the new plan for Clickpass development I’m disabling the Developer tab for anyone who hasn’t already enabled it and turning off the creation of new sites. Put simply; We don’t want new sites being coded against the existing system. This is temporary, I’m expecting to open up the new beta in the beginning of August.
Thanks,
–Randall
Posted September 22nd, 2009 by peter
One of our Cickpass user/developer recently posted a great step-by-step article on how to setup Clickpass using Rails at his blog: YangTheMan.
It’s a great article and always great to see people using Clickpass. If you’ve written anything then just send it in to us. Thanks Yang!
Posted February 3rd, 2009 by peter
Do you have the ability to architect and build a new web service from scratch? Would you like to be the lead architect in a small, tight team building an identity hub for the next generation of pluggable web applications?
Clickpass is hiring a lead developer and architect to help design and implement our next phase of authentication services. The role will offer you the chance to work under the Clickpass brand but within the very pleasant offices of the company who recently acquired us, SynthaSite.
What you will be doing
You will be working in a small team and responsible for all of the software development for the service. Your role will be to help architect how the service should work and then to implement the code across the full stack of technology from server through to browser.
Sys-admin support is already in place and you will have access to any additional support you require including design and UX. You will be liaising directly with the clients this service plugs into.
Who we are
Clickpass is creating a new, second-generation identity-hub service to allow websites such as SynthaSite to seamlessly plug in embeddable widgets and services that (currently) require a separate user account. This is of particular relevance to our acquirers, SynthaSite but has has also been requested by several other well known web brands.
The role represents a very unusual opportunity to have the impact and autonomy of a startup founder but with the security and salary associated with a very well funded, venture-backed company.
Who you are
- A seasoned developer with the ability to plan and work systematically through software challenges
- Someone who is as driven to pin down the small details as the larger architecture
- Motivated by autonomy and responsibility
- Effective and productive
- Systematic and professional in your approach to project management
- Capable of driving a project and defending your logic but willing to flex in response to feedback from clients and your team
- Stimulated by the principles of core web services such as GNIP or Mashery
Required skills
- Extensive Ruby on Rails / MySQL experience
- Agile development methodology
- Strong Javascript
- Strong HTML/CSS/web-standards
- Friendly, sociable personality
- Willingness to develop and maintain an existing code base
- Eligibility to work in the USA
Bonus skills
- Experience scaling Rails applications
- Familiarity with multiple server technologies (PHP/JSP/ColdFusion)
- Experience developing or maintaining authentication systems for multiple large websites
- Experience with integrating payment gateways (e.g. Authorize.net or Paypal)
Responsibilities
- Working directly with partners and clients to customise service to their needs
- Development of reporting interfaces and management tools for website owners
- Maintenance and extension of the existing Clickpass code base
- Developing plugins to integrate into varied authentication services
Location and compensation
- SOMA, San Francisco
- Competitive salary, healthcare, bonus, 401k and equity
How to apply
If you’re interested then please email peter.nixey@clickpass.com with your resume and why you feel you would be a good fit for the position:
Posted December 19th, 2008 by peter
It’s been an exciting and busy time for all of us over the last few months. After much getting-to-know and mutual bonding, Clickpass has now decided to make the biggest bond a company can make and to become a part of SynthaSite.com.
This is a wonderful opportunity for us and we’re hugely excited to be able to extend the reach of Clickpass’ identity services over the hundreds of thousands of websites that SynthaSite powers. We are going to carry on developing Clickpass as an independent service but will now be doing so not only with a vastly increased distribution channel but also with the addition of a superb team of people.
Since SynthaSite is also based in San Francisco I’m happy to say that we will be staying in the city and are looking forward to continuing to build Clickpass out as part of a bigger network over the coming years.
Posted September 8th, 2008 by peter
There’s nothing that we love to see more over here at Clickpass than finding more places we can use our little login button and there are lots. Here are just some…
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Want to learn your Chinese characters? Skritter is a really easy way to do it and you can sign up using Clickpass.
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