Whit Nelson, one of Mightybytes’ developers, has been stirring the cauldron of API development recently to make magic happen.

He’s been working with APIs—Application Programming Interfaces—which open up the inner workings of a product (such as Gmail, Twitter, etc) so that developers can create new applications and services around them. Working on a simple project with an API can mean great improvements for the whole ecosystem of users and developers.

When Emma gave Mightybytes a sneak peek at their API, Whit set out to integrate it with Highrise from 37 Signals. The result would be efficient: When companies sign up users for their newsletters, their lists of contacts in Highrise would be automatically synced with it.

Climate Ride California was epic—and challenging—this year! Here are some highlights.

As always, the ride was filled with great people, excellent speakers, phenomenal scenery, and many formidable miles in the saddle. Our team of four—three riders and one crew member—had an excellent, if not soggy, time. Here are the four ‘M’s’ of Team Mightybytes’ experience.

Doing some of your own user research can help you save money on complex redesigns of your web site or product.

Agencies and software developers are not the only entities that have changed the use of user experience from a buzz word into a full-fledged process as part of their development cycle for web sites, mobile apps and other interfaces.

As you can imagine, finding electrical power and internet connectivity during the Climate Ride can be a challenge. Now that our team has gotten better connectivity, Tim has begun posting pictures from the first two days of the California Climate Ride.

These pictures of the journey really speak for themselves.  Enjoy.

Can you believe the ride is so close? Neither can we! The members of Team Mightybytes (Tim, Joy, Bryan and Bill) head out to California today as they eagerly await the start of the ride.

For those who might be hearing about it for the first time, Climate Ride is a non-profit organization that organizes fully supported, charitable bike rides to support sustainable solutions, bike advocacy and environmental causes. Each year there are two rides, one from NY to DC and one along the California coast. The California Ride is set to begin on October 2nd.