Welcome to Cykod. We are a fully-integrated, self-funded web-development startup located in Boston, MA.

Welcome to Cykod.

We are a forward thinking, Rails-based web start-up looking to change the way you interact and play with the web.

Self-funded, independent and agile, we strive to stay on the forefront of the whatever-o-sphere where ever it might take us.

A band-aid for the comments conundrum: Developing a Tilder filter 05/13/2010

I made the mistake yesterday of reading through the comments section on a Boston.com article. I should know better and I quickly regretted my decision.

Thriving in the coming game mechanics hype cycle 05/10/2010

It was the famous Jesse Schell video from DICE 2010 that finally convinced me that Game Mechanics on websites were here to stay. I had hoped once people got tired of mayoring-up and badges it would sort of die down, but that video opened my eyes to the fact that it's here to stay.

Ugly Abstraction, or "Just one more option parameter" 05/07/2010

One of the mistakes that I have been guilty of was the crime of trying to make one piece of code do too many things.

Valentine's Heart and Arrow: Part 2 Create a Card 02/05/2009

Create a card by using our vector heart and arrow from part one and make a pattern background.

Valentine's Heart and Arrow: Part 1 Vector Heart 02/02/2009

In this Valentine's Day themed screencast, I will walk you through how to draw a heart with an arrow piercing it in Illustrator CS4.