— Scott Guthrie (@ scottgu) May 2, 2013
Scott Hanselman was kind enough to try out the beta and he wrote up his thoughts on his blog: Penny Pinching in the Cloud Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring On Windows Azure Web Sites
Make sure to ask us for a demo in the exhibition hall. We're looking forward to talking with you next week in Chicago!
And don't forget, all Visual Studio Live! attendees can try New Relic Pro for 30 days…
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…overview of the ‘rules' of application development. There's also an excellent summary of Scott's talk over on the FounderFuel blog - thank you to Andrea and Ian from the FounderFuel team for putting this together and inviting us down!
Do cheaters prosper? Understanding the rules of application development from TWG
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Episode 43: A good person by default :
thoughtbot's Ben Orenstein is joined by Scott Orn, venture capitalist at Lighthouse Capital Partners by day, and co-founder of Ben's Friends by night. Ben and Scott discuss building a community, the future of Ben's Friends, and how running the site helps him be a better VC, teaching people, and getting value out of giving back. They also talk about his work as a venture capitalist at Lighthouse, how the money flows, …
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…by Q1. I plan to complete and release atleast one album with one of the musical projects I'm a part of. I plan to write here at a more regular cadence, either monthly or bi-monthly. In 2013 we haven't made solid plans yet, but we may travel further and for longer stretches of time. The overall goal to simplify and focus more time on less things is paramount.
Happy new year and good luck with your own goals and plans for 2013.
Scott
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It was clear from the start that Scott had a real knack at dev-ops - configuring servers, monitoring system, and backup systems. For a number of months Scott worked with Sean on setting up these systems, and he soon extended these efforts into creating whole applications that would support the software that we were building for our clients. PostageApp was dreamed up on our trip to Mexico in 2009 to solve the problem of sending application driven email for all of the social network …
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What Scott is really calling for isn't just to build a crappy UI and be done with it. Not at all. Scott is advocating for startups to bring into sharp focus the core value that their products are bringing to the table and aligning that with the market problem they're solving. Doing so, in the end, allows them to build better, stronger businesses.
A good example of this was recently brought up in our ZURBsoapbox chat with the Winklevoss twins . The twins pointed out …
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I had gotten to know Scott over the years after 37signals designed the original Meetup.com site back in 2001-2002.
Because...
Scott emailed me back in 2001 asking if he could meet while he was in Chicago visiting family. He liked our early web design work at 37signals . No one had ever asked to meet me out of the blue before - and barely anyone knew who 37signals was - so I was flattered and said yes.
Because...
I had started 37signals with two co-founders in 1999. …
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Here's a post from Scott sharing some of his initial design ideas for the new event bubble . As you scroll down you'll see the discussion involves feedback from a few different designers. Some feedback is purely text, some are questions, and others are design "volleys".
Interacting with the UI
Here's a thread that starts off with a screencast showing how the UI would work . We often share screencasts when designing UIs so people don't …
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…page. Media queries on link elements are you friend, use them . The only caveat, as Scott indicates, is that the browser will download all enabled stylesheets, even though the screen on your device may not ever exceed the 4000px width. This is a possible area of improvement in WebKit: evaluate whether the constraint can be satisfied at all on the current device.
Myth #2: CSS is always in the critical path
Scott is right, loading CSS in an optimized and prioritized fashion is difficult. …
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