§ Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video : CSS styling an element with variable width and auto-scaling height.
I have found that return and ridicule are highly correlated over the years. We have made more money on things that were highly ridiculed than on any other cohort. When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
§ HipChat Tips and Tricks for the Power User .
…continually experimenting with ways to improve our focus time, reduce meetings, improve communication, and ship our code faster to our customers. If you'd love to be a part of our team, please look at newrelic.com/jobs .
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10 Photoshop Tips For Not Using Shadows
You may want to skip this conference and just go ahead and use Flat UI Free .
§ The GitHub Generation: Why We're All in Open Source Now .
§ Brian McKenna :
" OO mocking" means something else to functional programmers.
§ Head Like A Hole mixes perfectly with Call Me Maybe .
Much less edgy, but geek funny, Hey I just forked you, this code is crazy. I made some changes …
> Tips from an Anti-Social Founder : Dharmesh Shah on culture
PLUS:
> 8:30am Mimosa Meetup - 1st come, 1st served, hosted by GitHib
> Grilled Cheese + Beer (not lean, but awesome) - hosted by Neo
> Elon Musk + Popcorn - hosted by DealFlicks, during SXSW keynote
> . CO hookups 4 startups: A SXSW favorite is back again!
> Mentor Sessions - Featuring experts in building + running startups
LEAN STARTUP MENTORS INCLUDE... …
Join New Relic and Blue Box for Six Tips for Improving Ruby Application Performance , our joint webinar on scaling Ruby applications.
During the event, our own Chris Kelly will describe how you can identify and avoid common Ruby performance issues. You'll learn how to:
* Gain visibility on site performance
* Improve scalability and uptime
* Find and fix key bottlenecks
The webinar takes place Tuesday, February 26 th at 9 am PT / 11 am CT / 12 …
ReadWrite's Top 10 Tips to Make BYOD a Success in Your Enterprise
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You should read the article to get the full monty on ReadWrite's tips, but here's a quick summary to whet your appetite:
Engage stakeholders in discovery. If the people at your organization don't support the process, your BYOD initiative will never happen. When we do our mobile strategy assessments , we make sure to get people from various …
Apparently not everyone was busy with sportsball over the weekend.
Colorsublime - There is apparently no end to color schemes for ST2.
How can I delete all git branches which are already merged? - A useful tip if you're the cleaning type.
Publishing your gem - My latest addition to the RubyGems Guides. Corrections/additions welcome.
Firebug Tips & Tricks - Now organized topically.
Rails 4, Part 2: What's New in Rails 4 - …
10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy
More of these gems in the hard to find Unpublished David Ogilvy .
Vim Tips - Part I (June 27, 2012)
Vim Tips - Part II (July 3, 2012)
Rails 3 upgrade process (the road from 2.3.14 to 3.2.6) (June 21, 2012)
Intro to Machine Learning in Ruby (December 30, 2011)
Remote pair-programming with Screen (November 3, 2011)
Redis in the NoSQL ecosystem (December 28, 2011)
…The Pickaxe
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