Dear all,
It seems that the Google Maps API is broken, and some places could show up without any maps. We can’t do anything about it, but please wait until Google fixes this (which I’m sure they’ll do very soon).
Thank you,
Michael

The places.ae team wish you a happy ramadan to all Muslims around the world.

Quick one, now you can use facebook to login to places.ae. This way, you don’t have to create another set of credentials.

You shouldn’t have noticed a thing (aside from a very embarrassing HTTP/500 Error that came up for a few seconds), but we migrated the site to a new source code versioning system.
All is up and running, smoothly!

Dear all,
We had some hiccups with the apache configuration a few days ago whereby all traffic was routed to blog.places.ae instead of the main site. Furthermore, we had some issues on our Ruby on Rails app whereby the search results sometimes resulted in an HTTP/500 Error.
But that’s all fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank [...]

Dear all,
We attended the new, DIC organized DemoCamp Dubai yesterday, it was different, but good nevertheless. Sad thing though is that the demo’s took longer than foreseen (each were given 10 minutes), but I did the same 2 years ago when I presented places.ae on Democamp 1.
Anyhow, I’d suggest for the organizers to actually [...]

Ni Hao!
Happy New Year to our Chinese friends, Chinese users and their Chinese friends. That the year of the tiger may bring you luck, a good health and answers to any questions you have.
Check out the several chinese restaurants in Dubai.
Warm regards,
Michael

Hi all,
Sorry for the delays in blogging, but I was practicing for my 10k marathon run. I’ve been practicing the past, say, 2 months and didn’t have much time to push new changes to places.ae. Anyhow, we’ve been drafting new features on papers, have potential very interesting partnerships coming up, so now we’re [...]

Today, two years ago, places.ae went from a “coming soon” page to the real deal. The application was, and is, far from finished, and I remember that the fromtpage was a whopping 450+ kB page.
It was a nice and exciting thing, as this was the first rails application we ever put on [...]

Dear all,
At places.ae we would like to wish all our users and friends a happy new year coming up. We hope that 2010 brings you health and success, and as our commitment towards you all, is that we’ll give you more fun features, and more places.
Have a great year ahead,
The Places.ae