The New Relic .NET team will be represented at Visual Studio Live! Chicago next week!
Next Week in Chicago
We're excited about going to Visual Studio Live! and looking forward to meeting current and future users of our .NET agent at the conference exhibit hall.
At the Visual Studio Live! Demonstration Theater on Tuesday, May 14th, you can learn even more about our application performance monitoring for .NET and what we call ‘performance-driven development.' …
I talk to Jason Calacanis about Groupon, bubbles, Apple, innovation, Yahoo, remote work, sustainable companies and lifestyles, and so much more in the hour-and-a-half This Week In Startups show. (Interview itself starts 7:30 min into the video)
…couldn't think of a snappy title for what's been happening this week. By my reckoning, last week was Week 1805. Apparently I started the count at the week I was born; that seems a bit silly in retrospect, but it's all arbitrary in the end.
Last week I spent a lot of time getting various things in order, including this site. I broke up a bunch of draft posts that had been cluttering up my git st for probably more than a year, and psuedo-published them. They're still not exactly …
Join us this Saturday, September 22, for the Big Data Hack Day presented by Angel Hack Events . The Hackathon kicks off the Data Week Conference in San Francisco.
Big Data Hack Day is one of the first hackathons that lets developers to build upon existing codes, allowing teams to win prizes for integrating big data tools into their current companies. There will be plenty of things to do for those not interested in big data as the organizers have non-big data APIs to work on too.
This Week's Testimonials
The Go programming language has recently been getting some developer love. My former boss' boss, Shopify CEO Tobias " Tobi" Lütke , tweeted on September 12th:
I have now completed two projects in Go. I predict that it's going to be the dominant language for server work. # golang
— Tobias Lütke (@ tobi) September 12, 2012
While much of Tobi's time is centred around the sort of activities …
We're back after a week off from the Memorial Day weekend with our Week In Review. Although we're sure you've been keeping up with all of the latest content by our RSS Feed or Twitter account (hint hint), we'd love to get you caught up on all the latest posts so that you're fully back up to speed.
Without further ado, let's jump right into the content!
Bit.ly Redesign Gets More Social, Leaves Users Stumped
The new Bit.ly redesign …
Without further ado, the Week In Review:
Responsive Tables Playground Piece
We released our latest Playground piece last Thursday — Responsive Tables . If you're tired of tables breaking your responsive layout, here's your fix. Jonathan breaks down how exactly it works and puts out a call for feedback. We want to hear what you think!
Read: "A New Take On Responsive Tables"
The CSS Behind The ZURB Manifesto
Curious …
Hej hej!
Mike Burns (author of This Week in Open Source , among other roles here) is moving to Stockholm and wants to meet you! Calling all Ruby developers, Web designers, and other local Web and startup folks: come out and have a beer on us.
What: Free beer for Web and Ruby folks
When: Monday, 16 April, 19:00
Where: Bishops Arms — Vasagatan 7 (near T-Centralen)
Who: You!
P.S. Can't make it, but interested in talking with or working with thoughtbot in Sweden? Get in touch !
About This Week's Availability - Kudos to GitHub for complete transparency. And I'd like to meet the morons who are DDOSing them in a dark alley with a baseball bat.
red, green, refactor - the tools for success - Lots of links to useful-looking test-fu here.
simplecov - Supremely easy test coverage tool for Ruby 1.9.
rack-bouncer - Middleware to send unwanted browsers elsewhere.
Getting Started with iOS Development using Sinatra…
…hosting.) However, I will give it a proper design and work on more.
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