Forbes interview about REMOTE: Office Not Required
We talk about the benefits of remote work for employees and employers as well as the desperate measures taken by Yahoo and Best Buy.
- Phusion Corporate Blog: WeTransfer co-founder Nalden to speak at BubbleConf 2012
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby 2010: Year In Review
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Quick RMU Status Update
- ZURB: How To Talk With Teammates Who Aren't Designers
- the evolving ultrasaurus: freedom in ruby and code
- Giles Bowkett: David Cope Offers Annual Algorithmic Composition Workshop
There are so many programming books out there, but most focus on specific technologies and their half-life is incredibly short. Others focus on process or culture. Very few focus on the timeless principles of writing good code, period. The following five books had the biggest influence on my programming style and development:
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns : Incredibly practical advice for what constitutes good OO code. It's done in Smalltalk, but the principles are mostly …
- Giles Bowkett: BritRuby Kerfuffle: Silly Even By Ruby Standards
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1026
- gnuu.org: Exposing the Right Details: A Tale of Two Audiences
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ready, Set, Go!
- RubyLearning Blog: My Ruby Regrets
- Complicated Simplicity: There is nothing new except what is forgotten
…Ruby on Rails and a partner at 37signals. David and Ben discuss David's normal day, his working relationship with Jason Fried, how their blog, Signal vs. Noise, is important to the company, how he got into programming, where he draws his inspiration from, some good books he's read and how he learns today, how he overcomes fear and why he takes risks, how he got into racing, why he enjoys it, what he learns from it, and how feedback loops and goal posts help you learn, inspire …
- Signal vs. Noise: Whatever interests you naturally is the most important thing to work on
- » Product Launch Blog: Pathfinder at Tech Week: Innovation at Big Companies and Creating a Startup from Scratch
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- Alex R. Young : What Was The Future of Web Apps?
- New Relic: Next Stop: WindyCityRails, Chicago's Ruby on Rails Conference
- Kalzumeus Software: Kalzumeus Podcast Ep. 2 with Amy Hoy: Pricing, Products, And Passion
…Andy Lindeman for RSpec and rspec-rails respectively. Thanks for all your hard work, David.
Upgrading to Rails 4: A Forthcoming Book (in Beta)
Andy Lindeman of the RSpec core team is working on a new book designed to bring you up to speed with Rails 4. It's in beta so you can support him now, if you like.
Reading
Andrei Lisnic demonstrates a few compile time 'tricks' you can use to make your MRI Ruby 1.9.3 faster. …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1008
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Introducing the Rails API Project
- Giles Bowkett: Underpromoting Information Products For Fun And Profit
- Practicing Ruby: Issue #17: Interesting Ruby Hacker-Writers
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
- Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
Myron Marston is taking over leadership of the RSpec project, and will be the lead maintainer of the rspec-core, rspec-expectations, and rspec-mocks gems.
Andy Lindeman is taking over as lead maintainer of the rspec-rails gem.
Myron Marston is RSpec's new project lead
Myron Marston has been contributing to RSpec since the ramp up to the 2.0 release in 2010, and joined the core team in early 2011. In addition to solid contributions to the code base, Myron has …
- Ruby Inside: The Last Week in Ruby: A Great Ruby Shirt, RSpec Team Changes and a Sneaky Segfault Trick
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more
- the evolving ultrasaurus: on choosing RSpec as a test framework
- News Feed: Learning RSpec
- Bamboo Blog: Lightning Talks
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Prawn moves to test-spec / Mocha from RSpec
…Neo, with guest speakers: Ismail Elshareef, Edmunds.com; David Bland, BigVisible; Stacey Gutman, American Express OPEN; and Bill Scott, Paypal, Lean Startup in the Enterprise
Kelly Goto, Goto Media, Build Successful (and Sane) Iterative Apps
Alistair Croll, Solve for Interesting, and Ben Yoskovitz, GoInstant, Lean Analytics: Using Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Janice Fraser, LUXr, and Laura Klein, Users Know, Validate Your …
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing the Lightning Talk Speakers
- Signal vs. Noise: What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- Tea-Driven Development: Agile North 2010
- Obie Fernandez: Since I finally got my LaunchRock Invite...
- Positive Incline: Lean reading marathon
According to David, success:
should be measured by longevity, sustainability, and consistency
should NOT be measured by financial gain, hourly rate, or utilization
should produce a sense of satisfaction, belonging, and purpose
He then introduced us to the freelancer:
wears many hats
notably independent
obsessed with efficiency
moves on quickly
pros: freedom of choice, what equipment and technologies to use, what to charge
cons: finding work, negotiating contracts, invoicing, …
- Obie Fernandez: Meet David Allen at BizConf 2010
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Sponsors the Lithium Framework
- On the Path: Goetz's First Law
- processi: ruote demos and examples
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
rspec-2.12 is a minor release (per SemVer ), which includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes. It is fully backward compatible with previous rspec-2 releases and is a recommended upgrade for all users.
Thanks to all who contributed. Special thanks to Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman for their personal contributions to the code as well as a great job shepherding pull requests from several new contributors.
UPDATE: If you're an rspec/rails/capybara user, be sure to read …
- Smarticus: Semantic Versioning
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Using >= Considered Harmful (or, What's Wrong With >=)
- Opscode Blog: Ohai 6.14.0 released
…Bulletproof Networks and also on the Amazon cloud. "We're a nonprofit," adds David, "so any cost ratios are extremely important to us. We work closely with technology partners who believe in what we're doing, and who help us operate as efficiently as possible, often at reduced rates."
Partnering for a Purpose
Movember began using New Relic in 2010. "In terms of features and usability, it's clearly the best thing out there," David says. …
- Jerrett Taylor: Movember!
— David Crow (@ davidcrow) October 29, 2012
The @ bfeld he's referring to is none other than Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group , cofounder of TechStars , investor, entrepreneur and author. He's scheduled to come to Toronto tomorrow (Tuesday, October 30th) to talk at a StartupNorth event about building a local startup community:
In spite of Hurricane Sandy, he's still showing up. Word has it that he's …
- Unspace Blog: Raising capital in Canada