Put on your lederhosen, and join Dubai’s German community in this year’s October Fest. Below is a list of participating places: Hofbrauhaus Grab your pair of Lederhosen or Dirndl and celebrate with the German female singers Sylvie and Sonja who will get you going with an exhilarating rendition of the ‘birdie dance’!1 – 31 October [...]

This morning, the web instances of places went down for little over an hour. We restarted them and are all up and running again. The issue was due to a memory leak in our application pool, but all is smooth again. We also decreased the session lifetime from 2 months to 2 weeks, this would [...]

Hi all, Seems we had a small error with facebook logins, due to an HTML encoded access token which we didn’t escape properly. This is all fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you, Michael

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 [...]

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 [...]

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