…"enlightened" Ruby developers, we realize how stodgy that world must have been for Tom. So when he discovered Grails, and eventually Ruby and Rails, he did what most of us would expect any Ruby neophyte to do: he went to his ( Java) development team and proselytized. "I was never able to rally enough support in the development team which was composed of all Java developers. No one wanted to learn a new language. So I ended up learning and playing with Rails on the …
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- Signal vs. Noise: Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
- Viget.com Blogs: RubyConf 2009 Recap
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Logos Suck When Branding Yourself
- Lovable Lyle: Wait, what was that last bit?
- » Product Launch Blog: How Canvas compares to Flash
…perconalive hashtag for a sampling of the great comments such as this from Tom Krouper or this from John Goulah or this from Jeremy Tinley or this from SF MySQL Meetup ).
There are so many people involved with putting on this event that it's impossible to list them all. The conference would be meaningless, though, without great content. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of the great keynote, tutorial, and breakout session speakers …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
- Heroku: Idea to Delivery: Application Development in the Modern Age. Adam Wiggins at Waza 2012 [video]
- Global Nerdy: Further Into FizzBuzz!
- Kalzumeus Software: Why I Don't Host My Own Blog Anymore
- The Real Adam: SoundCloud, micro-services, and software largeness
- On the Path: CodeSherpas is looking for new talent
…else. Instead of using your caps lock for evil and commenting " STILL NOT FIXED TOM . please reassign to me when it's FIXED AND READY FOR VERIFICATION . (read: do your job)" why not be nice? Why not say " Hmm...This seems to be a tricky one. I did a cache clear, reboot, and tried on 3 different computers, but I get the same error every time. These are the steps I take:" and then re-list each step you take, re-word what you did before, but add any details you think …
- How Software is Built: Interview with Mihir Shukla - CEO Automation Anywhere
- Dead Programmer Society: LARubyConf 2009 - Danny Blitz - "Herding Tigers: Software Development and the Art of War"
- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 A Morning with GitHub
- Life at the Speed of Green: #airfail for HTML Developers
- Giles Bowkett: Job-Hopping
- Lessons Learned: Why vanity metrics are dangerous
Tom's seminars also provide tools to develop story architectures and character networks that prioritize story for digital and transmedia extensions. Learn how to build resonant and structurally sound source material to successfully leverage properties across media platforms. He has truly helped get films nominated for and win Academy Awards. Yep, Oscars. He's worked with some of the best in the business.
Head here for more details , and check out Tom's 23 rules …
…arrived in a number of packets, out of order and with some data corruption (see the missing data on the envelopes), which we had to reconstitute into the actual request within our ‘server'. Bravo, Tom Stuart !
Tom was challenged for login details, and here was his response.
Alas, I cannot remember what was at http://experthuman.com/proof , and whatever was there is gone now. Perhaps that's for the best.
- World Wide Webber: WS-REST 2011 Call for Papers
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: AWS Multi-Region Support in Alpha
- DevChix: Meet devChix member Aimee Daniells
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: News Sauce
- Jonathan Conway: The past week I took my family on the long drive to the coast of...
- Saaien Tist: Why did I move into data visualization?
…I've never appeared in a podcast before and I'm very pleased with the result. Thank you Tom!
I reference these posts:
Introducing Kanban through its values
Kanban: values, understanding & purpose
Learning together: Kanban and the Twelve Principles of Agile Software
We touch on some more general aspects of leadership, on what it means to be a change agent, and on why some improvement efforts are ineffective. It may become apparent that the …
- On the Path: The Path to an Agile Maturity Assessment
- Mike Perham: Don't Mistake Meetings for Process
- Comments on: blog: Daily Review #37
- Opscode Blog: DevOps = Tools + Culture @ Interop Las Vegas 2010
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #796
- Giles Bowkett: KanbanPad
Think it's pretty obvious that Tom's not on the side of native apps. We've already made our stake in the ground, saying that the responsive web will outlast native .
But Tom brings up a good point and one that we want to highlight. Having three different versions of a site — mobile, desktop and app — can be very alienating for users. It's frustrating that you need to switch between them.
Of course, we believe firmly that responsive is the way to go. But …
- High Scalability: Google's Colossus Makes Search Real-time by Dumping MapReduce
Percona Toolkit 2.1.8
Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 was released today and the new version comes with some pretty cool news: Beta support for MySQL 5.6 (which as you might know is also in beta).
In addition to various bug fixes, Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 also offers beta support for Percona XtraDB Cluster ( PXC). Version 2.1.8 continues the trend of solid bug fix releases, and all 2.1 users are encouraged to upgrade.
You can download Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 here . ( More info on …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- till's blog: Hosted MySQL: Amazon RDS (and backups)
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: Data Modeling in Performant Systems
- Heroku: Polyglot Platform
- Ruby Inside: 13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011
…called LeanCoffeeTO started up...
Stay tuned for Part III as TWG joins LeancoffeeTO, woos Chris Eben away from his enterprise kingdom, creates a mobile development division with Jeremy Bower at the lead, partners with Jet Cooper, grows our senior team with the superstar additions of Tom, and Derek, and begins incubating Startups in our new studio..
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #632
- Rails Rumble: Free Stuff!
Here's a photo from Tom Warren , taken inside the Times Square Microsoft Store last night:
Here's a photo of Times Square from Frank X. Shaw , Microsoft's supreme corporate communications guy:
The on-the-street demo tables of Surface and other tablets are by the big, brightly-coloured banners made up to look like Windows' " Modern UI" tiles on the right. Here's a closer look taken at 10:45 last night, courtesy of the Times Square…
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- Lessons Learned: Host a Livestream of The Lean Startup Conference
- ZURB: What Tools Do Startups Use To Collaborate? 3 Influencers Weigh In
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- Ruby on Windows: ADO, Excel, and Data Types
- Giles Bowkett: Damn Inflation