brandoncordell

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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Depending on how geeky you want to go, whether it's all for work or you want some pleasure out of it, I would say get a bunch of x10 devices. You can get lights, security systems, coffee pots, etc that all work off of the wireless x10 proto
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Railscasts.com Railstutorial.org The Rails 3 Way Rails 3 Antipatterns guides.rubyonrails.org It's probably best to start with the absolute basics, just to make sure you don't miss anything. Even if you just skim through them.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I've been wanting to get more control over my brewing. For now I just use my Keurig. I love it, and I know I'll probably get shit from coffee snobs (no offense), but it's good enough to have a quick cup in the morning.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Are you interested in becoming a passive mentor for someone who has a decent grasp on core obj-c/cocoa concepts? I'm looking for someone I can bounce ideas and questions off of. I think InstaDesk is fantastic!
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I know you made this comment a while ago, but you're probably talking about [1]Vagrant. It's pretty fantastic. [1] http://vagrantup.com/
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I'm running my local development environment off of my MacBook Pro. It consists of: * Built in Apache/PHP, both configured how I like it * MySQL installed via the DMG download from mysql.com * Postgres installed via DMG download * Redis, Mo
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I seems to me as it's "making a comeback". Although it never left, for years I didn't hear much about it. Maybe the new generation of programmers are seeing the old guys use it and are just blogging more about it. I personally use Vim and l
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Have you tried any other forms of traffic building than asking for someone to spread your name? If you're as good as you say you are (I've never read your writing) then I would try getting a guest spot to blog on large parenting and family
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Thirding (sorry) Stripe. They're fantastic. You can have your account up and running in about 5 seconds. No merchant account, no gateway. You don't have to deal with PCI compliance even if you store customers cards (you don't actually store
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
person_to_blame, you're preaching the wrong people. There are different ways to go about this. Have you looked into Root Cause Analysis[1]? The 5 Whys[2]? I truly can't believe someone in a leadership position is putting this type of exampl
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I absolutely love Linode. They have a fantastic service, amazing support, and they're cheap.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Upgrade to a 13" MBP. I love my 13". I let my wife use it since I have a 15" quad core i7 and the 13" is only a core2duo. It should be plenty compatible with Ubuntu. Put a solid state in there and 16gb of ram and you'll be a happy developer
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
iTerm2 running tmux. That's where I run vim and irssi. As for GUI stuff. * Alfred - Alfred will make you 100 times more productive moving around your system. * Spotlight - Even if you don't use Alfred, spotlight will make you more productiv
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
You said "I don't mind getting fired, I'm going to get a better job anyways.", so why take on a defensive attitude like this?
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I don't think anything can pull me away from Vim. Some of it looks nice, but I don't think it would be much use to me. I'll have to wait until I actually get my hands on it though.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
In your position I would do a few things. 1. Become an authority figure in the market. Start writing blog posts about independent music, comment on music blogs, ask for permission to write some guest posts on some (small, medium, or large)
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
It's not a bad thing to say "I don't know" to some things. In this case though (and please don't take any offense) any intermediate PHP developer should know how to work with multi-dimensional arrays. That should be part of any PHP develope
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I have a 13" 2.4ghz c2d MacBook Pro with 8GB of ram and a 256gb solid state and a 15" 2.2ghz quad core i7 with 16gb of ram, soon to have 256gb SSD and 500gb 7200rpm storage drive. Best laptops I've ever owned and developed on.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Tell me what makes your idea unique? I didn't get much into it to be completely honest. The reason I didn't go into too much is because it just seems like any other ticketing system, the same thing I'd get with Bugzilla or Jira.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I charge 20% up front. Doesn't matter if it's a $40,000 contract or a $4,000 contract. Freelancers are easy to screw over because most of us can't afford to take people to court. It would usually cost me way more money in legal fees than th
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture was a great read. It goes into a ton of patterns and theory. It's worth a read, even though it's branded for the enterprise.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
I know this isn't something you can just "turn on" but... personally I love it when technicals books read with a nice "flow". For example I hate it when books read like "here's an explanation of this. Here's how you do this. Here's the next
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
If you host your own Git repo(s), make sure you have someone on your team that can stop what they're doing at the drop of a dime and fix/tweak the server hosting the repo(s). Hosting it yourself, it will be 100% someone on your teams respon
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
That's super low. Even for Florida!
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Mac's are a popular choice for programmers. They offer a great balance. Great UI (to each their own), they generally just work, but best of all the tools (mostly) just work. Getting Git, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Apache etc installed on Mac is a pr
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
There are some pretty big apps that are iOS5+. Instapaper for example.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Doesn't mean you can't party up on Battle.NET and play together.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Agreed, well the icons still aren't great on my Mac, but the font looks fine to me. Then again, I'm also a developer so I don't know everything about good design.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Personally I would never pay for a browser plugin. I don't really need those services to do anything more than they already do. Granted I'm sure there are tons of people that want more, but I personally am not one of them.
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by brandoncordell 14y ago
Django

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