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by james-fend 14y ago
Thank you. This has become my one and only default homepage that I open up starting each day.
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A Stanford Student Asked For My Splash-Page Screenshots, I Gave Him This Instead(jamesfend.com)
2 points by james-fend 15y ago|0 comments
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by james-fend 15y ago
None. If you're implying if this blog is simply link-bait, it's not. I have no need for links to this personal blog, I wrote this to bring out a few good pointers about the 'hustling' mentality in a Great come up story I really admire. Just
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5 Things Your Startup Should Take Away From Jeremy Lin’s Underdog Story(jamesfend.com)
5 points by james-fend 15y ago|4 comments
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by james-fend 15y ago
Thanks for the data, pretty interesting. I was thinking of doing one myself here in a few for Freelancify
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by james-fend 15y ago
Thank you for that. I shot you an email..
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by james-fend 15y ago
yeah, it only popped up half the time for me when I first saw the news, so I figured I'd post a decent "rewrite" that everyone could access. cheers!
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by james-fend 15y ago
Great stuff Michael!
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by james-fend 15y ago
thank you for the suggestion, will look into that. The popularity of the posts def caught me off-guard..
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by james-fend 15y ago
hey danneu, Unfortunately no. The logic for the cucumber tests are written out, so if another coder took a look at the .features, they'd be able to figure out what the app needs to do. But as far as the tests working if I cmd 'cucumber'; th
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by james-fend 15y ago
Thank you for this. I will have to look into a few off that list and implement them. All the models does have attr_accessible. Using CarrierWave for uploads.
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Facebook to File for IPO Next Week (mashable.com)
282 points by james-fend 15y ago|135 comments
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by james-fend 15y ago
Using MacPorts to install ImageMagick was hell. But when I used HomeBrew, it was like night and day.
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by james-fend 15y ago
Good question. The wordpress blog (webstartup.me) is on a cheap server. Freelancify is hosted on Heroku.
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by james-fend 15y ago
Jump-up-and-down moments, ah... those are great!
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by james-fend 15y ago
Do you think it's a left brain, right brain sort of thing? I mean what controls someone's ability to draw better than others? I've noticed usually the better someone can draw on paper, their web design reflects the same.
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by james-fend 15y ago
No prob! exactly why I wrote it.. during times of learning code; motivation is like gold
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by james-fend 15y ago
Yep. That's exactly it, it's on a cheap server and too much traffic. Anybody experience this before and/or know some quick solutions?
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by james-fend 15y ago
"then I'd come back the next day to realize it was a stupid" I couldn't agree with that more!! Come back and you find out all you had to do was restart the 'Rails Server' or simply mis-spelled something.
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by james-fend 15y ago
Yes, it was the hardest/easiest thing to learn I've ever experienced. Sometimes I was jumping out of my chair and then other times throwing things against the wall. Plenty of times I wanted to just give up.. during those points; I'd step ba
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by james-fend 15y ago
Thank you! Without getting too much into technics in the beginning, and getting the person to get something up to feel accomplished, gain confidence. I think that's what gets most people. That initial learning curve takes a lot reassurance
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by james-fend 15y ago
That's pretty fast. Yeah.. once getting past that initial learning curve; it becomes a lot funner.
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by james-fend 15y ago
thank you! how many hours total do you think you spent during the 3 months?
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How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify(webstartup.me)
184 points by james-fend 15y ago|80 comments
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by james-fend 15y ago
great question. I was a web designer working with only html/css. I had no clue what an MVC was before I got told the best route is to learn Rails by Josh. I'll definitely be making a blog post about the learning Rails aspect as it was reque
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by james-fend 15y ago
thanks!
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by james-fend 15y ago
Also, those spray and pray 'generic' bids that many companies on Elance and oDesk can't get away with that. So they actually have to display some sort brain power and ability to the project poster. The ability for the project poster not be
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by james-fend 15y ago
The ability to tell the person who posted the project that their project will be a piece of crap if they try to get something done for that much and why.
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by james-fend 15y ago
BRILLIANT IDEA!!
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by james-fend 15y ago
Thanks.. yep, fixing that is on the list

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