Cooreea goes live in Europe!

We are very, very happy to announce the birth of Cooreea outside of New Zealand. After a long journey and some last minute buggy bugs Cooreea Europe is now live. Gasp.

We are still working hard behind the scenes and would be over the moon to receive feedback from anybody, anywhere which would help us make Cooreea better.

We are still here!

We are still here, we have just been a bit busy - Stefan setting up home with his new son, Gwilym working on GetReal for Wanaka Wastebusters and Merle growing life.

Hopefully we will be back on the Cooreea trail in the next few weeks. We can see now that getting a critical mass of listings to make it truly useful in New Zealand is a harder task than we imagined and we are reorganising :-).

Back on deck

Stefan is back after his baby holiday and we are all ready to start coding again. The next few releases will be tidy up releases, making it easier for people to see the potential Cooreea has.

We really like hearing from people with problems or bugs so please let us know if you have any personal gripes with the Cooreea system, site speed, accessibility ... anything ... and we'll do our best to fix them asap. You can email us at: bugs@cooreea.co.nz

Congratulations to Stefan - our technical master - he's a dad! :)

We'd just like to send a bundle of love and congratulations to our fabulous technical master Stefan and his wife Nicola and congratulate them to their newest member of the family.. welcome little Ben! :) xx It's a special time and we will put a wee break in on the technical development of the site until they have had a decent time to adore their little boy without any worries about anything else.
Merle & Gwilym

Road tripping...

We are in the middle of a quick whip around the South Island spreading the Cooreea word and getting some nice swims in on the way: this morning we had a great one at Taylors Mistake, followed by a coffee at C4.

If you are looking for a ride north from Christchurch or Kaikoura today, or heading south from that way next week - list it soon and we'll keep an eye on the map

Drawing a new roadmap

We spent three days of last week having our last 'work camp' in Europe before Merle and Gwilym head back to New Zealand.

Between getting up at 3am to see Obama triumph, and bobbing for apples we gathered from the local tree at our last dinner, we packed in a lot of work to draw up our new development road map for the next six months.

So, new features are coming, even a whole new application of sorts to tackle recurring rides. We are also going to move our European site launch forward and many other small design and bug fixes are coming up.

Things are happening :-)

We are live!

Well... that's it then...we are leaving the comfort of the privacy of our own computer land - and putting Cooreea out there ... into the wilds of the Internet. Fare well dear child.

We are proud to announce that our eight months of work and 938 revisions has resulted in Cooreea Ver:NZ1. We are sticking our heads above the ramparts to see what is out there and if you, the public, like what we are doing.

Cooreea is fully operational and we would like everybody to get in there and have a go. We are in constant development and will be releasing new code weekly so if you find a bug or have a request, PLEASE, email us. We like feedback.

We have to say thanks! To Mike, Vic, Ben, Felix, Nicola, Hana, Davey, Hannes, Dave, Toby, Ralf and Pete for testing, yep - it's boring but it is really, really appreciated. As well as thank the Schlueter Family and Nicola for supporting some of our various 'work camps' in Shanghai and Germany with yummy food and mental support, without which we wouldn't have made some of the brilliant changes that happen when you spend intensive sessions focussing on one thing.

We'd also like to thank the CakePHP team without whom this wouldn't have been possible. And while we're at it we may as well thank the PHP team too, as without them Cake wouldn't exist. And Apache, Ubuntu etc etc etc :-) Opensource is superb.

Please note :: Because we have limited server power, to preserve the experience for users we have a limited number of new user accounts per day. If you can't get one, please come back tomorrow. If you still can't get one. Email help @ cooreea.co.nz

Gwilym, Stefan and Merle