…really just are better because they're faster...
The way I tend to do it is I'll design something the way I like it, and then I'll figure out how I can pull stuff out of it. So, for me, it's more an editing process. Speed is about editing for me. I want to get the idea out there first and then I can start peeling back.
— Jason during the 37signals podcast Design roundtable - Part 2 ( transcript ).
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Add a header that tells Internet Explorer (all versions) to use the best available standards support. [ Yehuda Katz]
Rename _snowman to _e .
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Jason, in the comments on my last post , pointed out that I should look at Slim Scrooge . He's actually both right and wrong and, to me, its a case of context. For this application I've moved from a development context to a production context. In development, I have no problems using tools (and I've looked at Slim Scrooge recently actually) and I do. Regularly. But this is now live and I've been dealing with LOTS of memory issues. And I mean LOTS …
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Recently, my coworker Jason and I encountered this problem when working on the open source app GNITE. GNITE requires an internal large tree structure that can support up to 5 million nodes. Neither of us had worked with trees that large before, and we didn't know what the stumbling blocks were going to be. So, we decided to spike it out.
A spike is a quickly written, untested piece of code that's intended to be thrown away. You intentionally abandon your best practices in …
This has been around for a little while now, but Genius Pool now has Twitter integration when a new job is posted. Check it out and post a job.
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Jason:
You bought three coding books for reading on your Kindle,
They never got read, the whole deal is a swindle,
Pony annual fees for app sales, then they tax it,
I'm telling you man, that app store is a racket!
You are MUCH better off with HTML-
The web page markup that I know you know well-
The latest spec lets you store data on phones
Even when offline, but the browser phones home!
Your iPhone, Android, Palm, soon Blackberry: …
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Jason: We recommend that people approach Maven initially with a smaller project to understand the basic principles. People do run into problems when, as you say, they try to wedge Maven into an old model.
That's why, if someone's first attempt with Maven is a version of another project, they're generally not successful.
Scott: There's almost a pattern around learning a new paradigm. I remember when .NET came out, a lot of organizations tried to learn the new technology …
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Lately I've been involved heavily in iPhone development. Not so much on the Objective-C side, but more on the developing of supporting APIs and setting up a push notification system. We decided to use PHP-APNS for the server-side Push Notification system. Their set of scripts (along with a few keepalive shell scripts) power our Push [...]
Many people ask me, "How can I get started in web design?" or, "What skills do I need to start making web applications?" While it would be easy to recommend stacks of books, and dozens of articles with 55 tips for being 115% better than the next guy, the truth is that you don't need learn anything new in order to begin. The most important thing is simply to start.
Start making something. If you want to learn web design, make a website. Want to be an entreprenuer and …