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by chriskottom 10y ago
It would be worth spending 10 minutes to write up some quick copy to that effect. When I entered my URL, I felt like it went into a black hole as there was no mention of "what happens now".
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Three Options for Top-Down Rails Testing(chriskottom.com)
1 points by chriskottom 11y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Minitest Concurrency(chriskottom.com)
2 points by chriskottom 12y ago|0 comments
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Fixing Rails Fixtures(chriskottom.com)
1 points by chriskottom 12y ago|0 comments
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by chriskottom 12y ago
During all the months of work on this, at what point did someone tell you, "I've been looking for something exactly like this." At the risk of straining the analogy, the pizza might be tasty, and the box might be attractive a
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by chriskottom 12y ago
I wouldn't claim to be any kind of expert, but the advice you need to hear right now is: start. Write about what matters to you. Don't wait to come up with a coherent thesis or mission statement about what your blog is before yo
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Customize Minitest Assertions and Expectations(chriskottom.com)
1 points by chriskottom 12y ago|0 comments
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by chriskottom 12y ago
88,846 PHP 1,420 HTML+ERB 1,177 JavaScript 1,128 HTML 423 Ruby 250 XML 160 Markdown 117 Emacs Lisp 91 INI 65 Perl
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Pragmatic MySQL Backups in 30 Minutes or Less(chriskottom.com)
1 points by chriskottom 13y ago|0 comments
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FBOpen (pilot) – a new search for government procurement data(fbopen.gsa.gov)
2 points by chriskottom 13y ago|0 comments
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by chriskottom 13y ago
The article had a few good insights in the first few paragraphs about the problems they were looking to solve: "pogosticking", structuring of search results, steering users toward the features that their data showed mattered most,
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by chriskottom 13y ago
Such timesink.
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by chriskottom 13y ago
There are two approaches that I would consider. The first is simply to ask: does your development work absolutely require large test data, or might it be possible to reduce the size through more precise selection? And more to the point, i
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A Few Modest Best Practices for Git(chriskottom.com)
1 points by chriskottom 13y ago|0 comments
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by chriskottom 13y ago
Most long-term predictions tend to be made by people living in pockets where the future has already arrived, but it seems appropriate to recall Gibson's prediction about uneven future distribution. Trying to extrapolate based on local
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by chriskottom 13y ago
Seems like a weird strategy. I admire the focus shown, but what if Thomas Edison had decided after 10 years to rebrand GE as Something Something Light Bulbs, Inc?
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by chriskottom 13y ago
The article isn't clear on it, but there have been studies ( http://baymard.com/blog/making-a-slow-site-appear-fast ) that show the perception of fast loading is actually more important than the real thing. Showing
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by chriskottom 13y ago
There's no such thing as easy money, and I think most people will tell you that going from $0 to $1K MRR (and sustaining it) are a hell of a lot harder than the journey from $1K to $2K.