Another worthwhile read is the last item in Cracked's article, 5 Ways You're Accidentally Making Everyone Hate You . All five ways, it turns out, end up being variations on the theme of power dynamics between people. The relevant item's titled "But I Was Okay With It!", and here are the key excerpts:
This will happen to you. You will be on one side of a conflict that does not feel like a conflict to you , because that is the conflict . Trust me, there's …
- Giles Bowkett: Awesome Web Business: justanswer.com
- Dead Programmer Society: The FutureRuby Revolution Will Not Be On AOL - Part 2
Ten Ways to make BYOD More Appealing to Users
TechRepublic have ten suggested ways to make BYOD more appealing to those users who are still a little reluctant. The full details are in the article, but we thought we'd list those ten ways in summary:
Tell them that BYOD means more freedom. BYOD allows users the freedom to do their work anytime, and in any place. This means that they can be productive while on the go, whether they're on their commute, while waiting …
If you want to learn about the DCI controversy, you can Google it. Personally, I'm crushingly uninterested.
cocoa-rest-client - Native OS X app for testing HTTP endpoints.
μLithp - Lisp interpreter in 27 lines of Ruby.
rbenv - Version 0.4.0 of this ruby switcher, which has the endorsement of Rails, is out.
No Clients? 5 Ways to Spend All That Free Time - Suggestions for what to do if you're experiencing a contract drought.
- Kalzumeus Software: Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie On Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More
- niczsoft: what you should know about rbenv and RVM
- Trevor Turk: Links for 09-26-11
- Fingertips: Boss guide to installing Ruby on Rails
- Ruby Inside: rbenv: A Simple, New Ruby Version Management Tool
- Signal vs. Noise: Automating with convention: Introducing sub
* 24 Ways insists that responsive design and high performance shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
* Stephen Pierzchala identifies three strategic questions for online businesses in 2013.
* Addy Osmani gives a tutorial on how to improve performance with Chrome DevTools .
* Stoyan Stefanov shows what Facebook has done to make the "Like" button faster .
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1007
- Signal vs. Noise: The bar for success in our industry is too low
- Labnotes: What's on your iPad (that you'd recommend in a heartbeat)
- Global Nerdy: If It's Tuesday, It Must Be AndroidTO (and TechDays Eve and CloudCamp too)
- David Bolton Strikes Again: My Tools of the Trade
- High Scalability: Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 9, 2011
Looking forward to a break from coding this afternoon.
6 Ways to get More Bang for your Heroku Buck While Making Your Rails Rise Super Snappy - Things you can do to squeeze more performance out of the Heroku environment.
A Ruby Design Process - Formal proposal that some language implementers are discussing. Discussion is here .
JS Testing Recipes - Mailing list for a forthcoming book.
Tendai Charasika, EnterpriseCorp, Ten Ways to Get Out of the Building
Eric Ries + Tereza Nemessanyi, High Ridge Group, Honestly Now, What is Innovation Accounting?
Beth Comstock of GE, in conversation with Eric Ries, Bringing Lean Startup to Life at One of the World's Biggest Companies
Jessica Scorpio, Getaround, Prototyping to Validate a Big Idea at Getaround
Danny Kim, LitMotors, Fast, Cheap and In Control: Testing the Market …
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
- Obie Fernandez: Since I finally got my LaunchRock Invite...
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing the Lightning Talk Speakers
- Signal vs. Noise: What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- Tea-Driven Development: Agile North 2010
- Positive Incline: Lean reading marathon
I pick that phrase out of Eight Ways to Avoid the Kaizen Roach Motel , from Mark Hamel's ( @ MarkRHamel ‘s) blog. The 3C's? Challenge, courage, creativity. That's a new one on me but I like it - you may recall that I argued for "challenge" a month ago, here .
Hat tip: Curious Cat's Management Improvement Blog Carnival #182 .
7 Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models
Some handy tips and examples on breaking apart 'fat models' into separate objects that each encapsulate a concept.
Charles Nutter of the JRuby core team explains some of the 'hard problems' Ruby implementations need to solve before getting all gung-ho with benchmarks.
Try and Try Again: Using the Null Object Pattern in Ruby
Gem Developers: Let The User Choose…
- Robby on Rails: 2012 Rails Hosting Survey results
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: One of my favorite additions to Rails 3 - ActiveRecord::Store - brings sexy back to old unsexy MySQL
- On the Path: Recap: Rails Girls Washington DC
- A Fresh Cup: What's New in Edge Rails #24
- Paul Gross's Blog: Testing Interactions with a State Based Approach
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Do not buy the print version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (yet)
Read "3 Ways to Actively Solve Problems, Not React to Them"
Keep Your Passion High
New opportunities often present various challenges we simply cannot anticipate when we start out. In this post, Forrest highlights the example of a school teacher turned accountant and shares advice for keeping passion high when chasing desires.
Read "How to Stay Passionate When Chasing Your Dreams"
Nail Your Seed Funding Pitch
There's enough pressure …
- Labnotes: Fuck Yeah fork(2)!
- the evolving ultrasaurus: sillicon valley love notes
- LoGeek's software blog: How to create small, unique tokens in Ruby
- Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Day 2
- Scout ~ The Blog: A lesson from my favorite TV movie
- » Product Launch Blog: Authorization with CanCan
…fall into. Ryan references Noah Wasserman in his post about how to avoid common startup pitfalls. Through surrounding yourself with the right people, you can persist and make it through any challenge.
Read "It's a Trap — 3 Ways to Avoid Startup Pitfalls
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