…Apple selling the iPad mini at lower-than-usual margins and Amazon selling Kindle devices at a loss , a new entrant in the tablet market would either have to have a killer price or killer features. BlackBerry are prepared to deliver neither.
"In five years, I see BlackBerry to be the absolute leader in mobile computing — that's what we're aiming for. I want to gain as much market share as I can, but not by being a copycat." Shooting for the top is what a …
- Global Nerdy: Karen Geier's High-larious "Thorsten Tips"
- the evolving ultrasaurus: cross-platform smartphone development
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- New Relic: Case Study: New Relic Helps Uken Games Build a Global Gaming Business
- Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult
- Signal vs. Noise: How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well
…Government Technology and has a site at BYOD4U.com , this Kindle ebook is a quick read that helps you determine an organizations BYOD maturity level, secure your BYOD mobile device and maximize its benefits, and how to cope with the way personal mobile devices are handled where you work.
BYOD for You is an easy lunchtime read; it's divided into eight chapters, most of them about a half-dozen pages long, which cover these topics:
Categorizing your BYOD enivronment…
…& Noble
"REMOTE: Office Not Required" at 800-CEO-READ
The book is planned for release on October 29th, 2013. eBook versions ( Kindle, Nook, iBook, etc.) will be available for pre-order shortly, too. It's up to the book stores to decide when these go live.
If you want to know more about some of the topics covered in REMOTE , here's a recent interview I did with Quartz .
- Ryan Tomayko: Your team should work like an open source project
- Luigi Montanez: Stop Using the text-indent:-9999px CSS Trick
- Blog | The Working Group: Video: What happens at a TWG event?
- Phusion Corporate Blog: WeTransfer co-founder Nalden to speak at BubbleConf 2012
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Talks at Applicake HQ: Brian Kalma, Ex-Director of User Experience at Zappos.com
- Viget.com Blogs: The ExpressionEngine Side of the New Viget.com: Part 1
You can get an ePub or Kindle version of the book at Manning.com .
I've written about the writing process for this book previously (and why it's taken so long to get out). I especially want to thank my co-author Bear Bibeault who worked hard to get this book out the door.
One question that I've been asked recently: "How relevant is this book to writing JavaScript in 2012?" I think it's still exceedingly relevant. This book has two major …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #904
- Global Nerdy: ClearFit's Looking for a Rails Developer
- Article RSS Feed: January 2012 Meeting
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 298 - Venn piagram
- 4 Lines of Code: Fundamental attribution error of programming
- On the Path: CodeSherpas is looking for new talent
…PayPal, which means a lot of people might not have been able to buy it. I haven't made the Kindle version available yet; it's PDF only right now.
The book's made $ 11,009.30 so far. I sold 309 copies.
Yesterday I downloaded some sales history from PayPal, and tonight I plugged my sales numbers into a quick Ruby script to produce a bar chart of daily sales.
Here's what it looks like from a distance:
Check out the gist to zoom in and see the chart in detail. …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: An eCommerce Refactor: Cleaning up a Common Pattern in a Rails eCommerce App
- omgbloglol: On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment
- Software by Rob: I Have Never Been So Happy to Give PayPal $30/month
- Kalzumeus Software: Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
- Yan Pritzker: Paypal freezes nonprofit art project funds
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): Ruby, Rails, Micropayments, and Amazon FPS
…up
Top of my list for next year (already purchased and downloaded onto my Kindle) is The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager (2012) by Daniel Mezick . Do you confront culture and mindset head-on, or regard them as something emergent? That has been a favourite conversation topic on Twitter and in conference bars and I'm really looking forward to reading Dan's take on this.
…twenty posts and categorize them for me? My time isn't totally valueless. And put them on my Kindle/iPad/etc so I can read them on a plane.")
My family . ("You wrote a book? I want to read it! What is it about?" "Conversion optimization for software websites." "I'll pass!")
Chapter List
Preface
Preface ( new essay )
Selling Your Stuff
Introduction ( new essay )
You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do
Does Your Product…
- Merbist: Causality of scalability
- Software by Rob: The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)
- Matthew Bass: Indieconf 2012: Seven Lessons in Personal Marketing
- A Piece of Our Mind: Friday Morning MetaBits - Oct. 1, 2010
- On the Path: An Open Letter to Restaurant Owners
- Concentration de studioConcentration de studio: newsweek: shortformblog: Huffington Post uses word "Google"...
…, in addition to the book (in HTML, PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats), you also get a complete example application, and the ability to get your questions about Ruby on Rails answered by the thoughtbot team using GitHub issues and live chat.
The book is written using Markdown and pandoc and distributed via GitHub. When you purchase, we give you direct access to the repository, so you can use the GitHub comment and issue features to give us feedback about what we'v …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1013
- Rails Rumble: Just When You Thought You Were Out...
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 342 — Certificate of common sense
- New Relic: Battling it Out at Rails Rumble 2012
- RubyLearning Blog: The Ongoing Vigil of Software Security
- Matthew Bass: Ruby Hoedown 2012 recap
…Building Web Reputation Systems , which I bought in April 2011 as a Kindle edition. I didn't know who Mr. Farmer was at this time. I just saw a new O'Reilly book on an area of interest, and I thought I'd check it out.
As the co-founder of Stack Overflow, I know a thing or two about web reputation systems! Out of curiosity, I looked up the author on my own site. And I found him , with a tiny reputation. So I sent this friendly jibe on Twitter:
But …
- High Scalability: Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now at 95 Million Page Views a Month
- ZURB: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood: Don't Accept The Status Quo
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Closing Lightning Talks
- Ruby-coloured glasses: How to build a reputation in IT
- David Chelimsky: Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman are RSpec's new project leads
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Lessons from a Thoughtbot Apprentice
…it was even created and how the service evolved into the massive cloud compute engine it is today, check out Cade Metz ‘s article in Wired - "The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Cloud Computing."
Whether you read it on a Kindle, iPad, Surface, or a regular old laptop, we think you'll enjoy it.
- the evolving ultrasaurus: setting up ec2 minecraft server
- High Scalability: Strategy: Use Spare Region Capacity to Survive Availability Zone Failures
- New Relic: New Relic Now Available on AWS Marketplace
- OnRails.org: Amazon RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service or MySQL in the Cloud for Ruby On Rails.
- Ruby Inside: Amazon Releases aws-sdk, An Official AWS SDK for Ruby Developers
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): Better AWS Access Control with IAM (and Fog)