I love this Ira Glass quote from the Code Academy handbook, designed by Sawyer Hollenshead .
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After a flurry of scrapped ideas and illustrations that may never see the light of day, I survived my first month designing at 37signals.
Joining the team in the heat of relaunching our flagship product, it comes as no surprise that everything has been hands-on and fast-paced.
My first week
Monday → New computer day. (13" MacBook Air + Thunderbolt Display)
Tuesday → Remove my Git and Ruby training wheels with Trevor.
Wednesday → …
…default Pygments styles rules apply. If you're happy with the defaults, Trevor supplies a default.css in his pygments repository. In addition to that, more styles are available all over the web . Also, Favio Manriquez Leon has a way to preview the built-in styles on his blog.
Conclusion
So there you have it. A way to re-use Python's great syntax highlighting for your Heroku-powered Rails blog in a way that will survive getting fireballed …
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…everyone who sent in mugs for our contest. We truly appreciate the tremendous outpouring of support for Trevor and his coffee habit. There were a lot of really creative designs submitted and it was difficult to pick a winner but in the end we had to make a decision. And the winner is...
Nathan Carnes with his one of a kind entry featuring an awesome image with a Blue Box Group shout out!
Congratulations to Nathan Carnes at Carnes Media for sending in the winning mug. Nathan…
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Thank you to everyone who has sent us mugs! Trevor will now be able to drink his coffee out of an appropriate container, but there are a lot of other people in the office who drink coffee so keep the mugs coming! Remember you have till January 31st 2012 to send in your craziest mug in order to win an assortment of Seattle goodies (our address is Blue Box Group 119 Pine St, Suite 200, Seattle WA 98101). Here is a sneak peak at what has been sent in so far.
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Perhaps you've been receiving annoying emails about exceptions like this in your Rails apps: A ActionView::MissingTemplate occurred in posts#destroy:
Missing template posts/destroy with {:formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en, :en], :handlers=>[:rjs, :rhtml, :rxml, :erb, :builder]} in view paths...
This exception is raised when you're missing the template for responding to a request of a certain format. So, if the browser requested HTML and you only expected to receive JS …
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…face-to-face with the Y Combinator partners ( Paul, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert) across a ridiculously narrow table. In our interview, that tension was quickly broken as everyone crowded around to see our demo. Paul thinks big, so if he likes your idea, be prepared for him to rattle off about 2 years worth of work for you to do - new features, new markets, a different direction, etc.
However, it's not all about the idea. Some teams get roughed up in the interview and are surprised …
…trap shop... Please mail it to our offices by January 31st, 2012 (our address is Blue Box Group 119 Pine St, Suite 200, Seattle WA 98101). Whomever sends us the goofiest mug will receive an assortment of Seattle goodies and all the entries will be showcased on our blog. Blue Box keeps the mugs so our staff can have dry hands. Do your worst and help Trevor drink his morning coffee in style!
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