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Some may function beautifully working from home all the time, and some may want to be in the office every day of the week — but you may find that very few people embrace the all-or-nothing approach. True freedom means having the option to choose the working environment that makes each individual most productive.
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Learned Objective-C
Released Today for OS X
Got an iPhone
Built PocketTweets with Robert Andersen
Released an a native iOS app
Started FuckingNDA.com
Did a radio show for a year
Did a radio segment for two years after that
Got married
Moved back to Central Indiana
Organized Indie+Relief with Garrett Murray and raised $ 143,872 for charity
Started public speaking
Went back to the App Store…
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…product managers from the top 10%?
They balance offense and defense projects appropriately. Offense projects are ones that grow the business. Defense projects are ones that protect and remove drag on the business (operations, reducing technical debt, fixing bugs, etc.)
Aspects of If you love mixins and aspects, you'll dig this presentation. How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript .
How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify
A quick blog post about things I learned and accomplished in 2011 and goals for 2012.
I hope that by writing them down there's more chance of me actually doing them.
Things I learned and put into practice in 2011
Learned Haml and Sass for a couple of Rails projects
Started using HTML5 Boilerplate
Started making websites responsive
Am now using HTML5 and CSS3 for every web project
Learned how to deploy web apps with Capistrano
Trip NetFlix shares their secret (spoiler: the circuit breaker) for making API access more resilient .
By example Mandatory read for managers: How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead .
Wise up Whether you're looking for excuse to avoid CoffeeScript, or what features to avoid when using CoffeeScript wisely, make sure to read A Case Against Using CoffeeScript . It helps to remember that programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally …
Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning @ Twitter . Learn how to tune your Hotspot and other Javasutra secrets.
By moving off the cloud Mixipanel may have lost their angel status. Why would they do such a thing? Read Why We Moved Off The Cloud for the details. The reason for the fall: highly variable performance. Highly variable performance is incredibly hard to code or design around (think a server that normally does 300 queries per second with …