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by bphogan 15y ago
Andy Lester's book "Land The Tech Job You Love" ( http://pragprog.com/titles/algh ) covers this topic in exactly the same way. I highly recommend this book. It's excellent advice, and it really is important to keep in mind - some companies
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by bphogan 15y ago
I really enjoyed that. It's something I wish I knew early in my Ruby programming experience. I've done similar things on my own but I really appreciated the approach taken here.
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by bphogan 15y ago
As with Android, it's not about how well something works, it's about having a big long bulleted list of features. Look, I want to like the iXXX alternatives. But I can't get behind half-baked alternatives. "We have voice recognition (that's
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by bphogan 15y ago
That's mine. I can't imagine writing for another publisher after hearing about all the awful things that happen to people's books. I'm very lucky. Sounds like you had a really rough time. :(
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by bphogan 15y ago
It depends entirely on the publisher. For my book, 80 characters was the line max. It was difficult for a few JavaScript things, but it just meant breaking one-liners apart into two liners, or breaking long script includes appropriately.
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This book has been out since 2010. They beat mine by a few months.
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by bphogan 15y ago
It is just a repetition of the "Use AOL Keyword "ID4" (for Independence Day). Walled gardens for the less technical savvy have been the norm. Outside of the hacker/coder/geek culture, has it ever really been different? Prodigy -> AOL -&
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by bphogan 15y ago
I've been playing with Mustache, as it works in Ruby and JavaScript (and something like 13 other languages.) Have to be a little careful to ensure that you only pass objects to the template, of course, so you don't bleed any language-specif
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by bphogan 15y ago
This particular example has little to do with Ruby and everything to do with the example chosen by the presenter.
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by bphogan 15y ago
The motivating factor I've seen is the fact that somehow, people got it in their head that in order to be legitimate, the "app" has to be in the App Store. This is one reason why we have a mobile app, which offers nothing we couldn't alrea
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by bphogan 15y ago
Agreed. And for some apps, where you need to work offline, native is great. But for apps that require a network connection to work, I don't see the point of a native app.
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by bphogan 15y ago
that's not the web's fault... that's the fault of most developers doing the web wrong, refusing to separate content from presentation. If mobile users only need service-type apps, the web can provide that. Programmers just have to write the
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by bphogan 15y ago
"many web apps" do. But they don't have to. That's a choice the developer makes. That's super easy to fix, too.
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Anyone else bothered by the idea of a "well-crafted persona"? I'm fine with being prepared for your talk, and knowing your topic. But spending 2-3 weeks on a slide deck and crafting a "persona" for your public presence sounds a lot like som
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by bphogan 15y ago
As a geek dad, I loved this ad. It was really cool, really well done, and memorable, even though I only saw it once on TV.
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by bphogan 15y ago
I seriously wonder what this means for Flash on the desktop. The responsive design movement keeps throwing these Morgan Stanley and other reports out there that predict that by 2015, people will be using mobile devices more than desktop dev
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by bphogan 15y ago
I recommend these: On Writing Well - http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... The Artful Edit - http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Edit-Practice-Editing-Yourself/...
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by bphogan 15y ago
I'll be participating in the forums, encouraging folks, and giving writing tips throughout the month. Would love to see some of you awesome HN folks join in the fun.
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by bphogan 15y ago
This. Unfortunately, right now lots of people need bone marrow donations to fight off various types of cancers. My mother couldn't get one, for example, and that was because people simply wouldn't donate. I apparently wasn't an option and h
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by bphogan 15y ago
Well, it might. If you don't have the resources, could you in fact pursue the extortion charge, get the judgement, and then come back around and say "hey, now that you've been found guilty, let's talk about the real issue"? They may be will
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by bphogan 15y ago
No problem. And depending on the USB midi input controller you get, you might be able to get a free LE (limited edition) copy with it.
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by bphogan 15y ago
Did you watch the clip I posted tho? Using the session view, I can prototype really quickly by recording simple loops. I used to use lots of other tools, but I am so much faster with the session view. I can record things in parts and then m
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by bphogan 15y ago
Ableton Live with the Session view is how I make my music. In fact, here's a stupid rough video of how I do my stuff. http://www.bphogan.com/files/videos/livesession.mov
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by bphogan 15y ago
Happened to seven WP sites I maintain. It's a script and someone got into an account. The script finds all .php and .htm files and adds stuff to the top. If you only have wordpress files, it's an easy fix - reset the password and get a diff
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by bphogan 15y ago
For the consumers, there's the various state agencies. In Wisconsin, you don't contact the BBB, you contact the department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Those guys shut down a regional cellphone provider because of some complaints
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by bphogan 15y ago
I understand people who use VIm for everything. I've recently come ack to it after a few years away. It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech. In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScr
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by bphogan 15y ago
I love that things change, and I love the almost competitive nature between projects, but it's grating if you maintiain existing things. If you're a consultant hopping from one client gig to the next each few months, it's great. If you main
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by bphogan 15y ago
I dunno, I've stuck with Capistrano... I've used Vlad, but Cap just works and it only needs to be as complicated as you make it. My cap files are usually about 40 lines total and that often includes a section where I write the database.yml
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by bphogan 15y ago
So, if it's not coding, not even HTML coding, then this isn't about websites. It's how much do you charge for a PSD file. In my experience that's a pretty useless metric. Converting a PSD to HTML can be trivial if you just use an export to
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What's sad is that this is exactly what we think of when we see these. But considering the source, I'd bet these problems are solved already. I do this all the time. I already have the answer, I just want to see how the prospect would do it

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