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.

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!

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:

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.

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It bugged us that you still needed a password for Clickpass so we wanted to figure out whether we could get rid of that last one. Could we make Clickpass so easy to use that you didn’t even need to sign up for us?

Well today we’ve done exactly that. You can now sign into Clickpass using your Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft Live ID. 

Simply chose the account you want to use, log in and then if you already have a Clickpass, link it up.

Accept all GYMF(!) accounts in one fell swoop

The new update means that supporting Clickpass on your site lets people immediately sign up to you immediately using Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or Facebook. 

Install OpenID, drop us in on top and people can register with you without ever needing a password. We’ll do all of the worrying on the back end to make it simple for you and your users on the front.

Scribd.com is an awesome way to upload, share and embed documents into webpages. Millions of people visit Scribd every day and logging in is now one-click simple with Clickpass

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We’re currently had at work building the Clickpass libraries which will allow our site owners to drop Clickpass quickly and easily into applications. As soon as they’re ready to roll installing Clickpass should become a whole lot easier and will result in yet more places where you can just “click-in”.

We’re going to be speaking about our experience on Y-Combinator, living in San Francisco and working with partners servicing millions of users.

If you’re interested in hearing more or you’re interested in coming out to California and working with us either full time or for an internship then we’d love to meet you.

Venue: Said Business School Oxford map
Time: 7pm, Friday 25th April 
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It’s a pretty cool tale which like the best of them gets better still in the retelling so we’ve written up a little of what happened over at thinkvitamin.com.

Joseph Smarr who never fails to amaze me with the speed at which he produces has also written an awesome account of it on the other side of the web as our biggest launch partner at josephsmarr.com.