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by jongold 13y ago
Great stuff. Whilst getting in to Node from Rails (& Meteor) I've found the lack of backend, structured MVC frustrating. Apparently it's not 'Nodey' to make a big framework like Rails, but I'd rather figure that
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Learning by hacking(medium.com)
8 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
It's a great holistic intro to Rails, but you won't finish it in an evening. I think Rails For Zombies is great for 'instant gratification' in the same way as the old 5 Minute Blog Tutorial used to.
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by jongold 13y ago
I basically owe a large proportion of how I earn money today to Michael Hartl - spending $100 on his screencast a few years ago was the best investment I could have made. RailsTutorial is holistic, practical, and very well paced for total b
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The Little Guy(adii.me)
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by jongold 13y ago
I use it for text all the time - blog post drafts (that I tend to finish in iA Write), scratchpads, things to remember… The search interface is absolutely fantastic and it stores files as .txt which is great and much more lightweight than E
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by jongold 13y ago
Also worth noting that it really, really stinks. Have a hotel booked if you're doing it at home. We did the old Prismatic office with it a few years ago and had to evacuate for I think about 3 days (with the windows open & fans on the w
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by jongold 13y ago
Does it work with RubyMotion? Any tips for installing it for a beginner? :)
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Ignore the news(medium.com)
84 points by jongold 13y ago|50 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
obviously GBP.
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by jongold 13y ago
OP here - I think I was stretching it a littttle bit far to claim we're all good at sysadmin :) In reality—at least on my team—we're really good at UX -> visual design -> front-end MV* -> Rails
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by jongold 13y ago
That's a really great suggestion. We only work on our own products, but if I go back to client services it's definitely something I'd like to explore :)
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by jongold 13y ago
I've worried about that every day for the past few years. But then I consider the alternatives — either designing flats in Photoshop/Sketch, or coding someone else's work? I might be spreading myself thin but I'm enjoying it and deliverin
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by jongold 13y ago
That's an absolutely brilliant idea - thanks; will definitely try it out :)
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by jongold 13y ago
Yup - that was actually an old job, but at @MakeshiftHQ we have a streamlined real-world version for each project we work on. We're a small team (4 designy-devs + 3 others at the moment) and we're almost always in the same room so it's quit
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by jongold 13y ago
Eesh, sorry! I'd like to think it's a Medium problem — either that or your browser decided my article wasn't worth reading ;)
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Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of Generalists(medium.com)
137 points by jongold 13y ago|71 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
Sublime Text 2 is kind of the spiritual successor to TextMate.
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by jongold 13y ago
Well I've just lost a lot of respect for TJ - shame really.
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by jongold 13y ago
I really loved Mark Otto's sentiment here — design and development aren't separate jobs like, say, deep-sea oil drilling and copyright lawyering are. We're all working on the same spectrum with an increasing amount of overlap. http://markd
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by jongold 13y ago
Been using this site since it was Swole.me - brilliant, thanks so much :)
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Insatiable Curiosity(medium.com)
5 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
Offbeat suggestion (and definitely not free or readily available) - LineTo Akkurat Mono. I've always been a little bit obsessed with monospace type & this is definitely my favourite. I use it in Sublime, Vim & iTerm 2 - hate using M
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Comment is free Young appmakers can't count on a job for life(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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The Designer-Developer spectrum(markdotto.com)
5 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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by jongold 13y ago
This was one of the key points in Brennan Dunn's 'Double Your Freelancing Rate' - sell the solution, not the technology. http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/
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by jongold 13y ago
I'm a web designer not a terrorist - why would I want to own a gun?!
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by jongold 13y ago
How about our sane gun control laws and our politicians who—while a bit rubbish—aren't being paid hundreds of millions of $ by BigCorp™ to go against the people?
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by jongold 13y ago
Really excited about this - I think now that Ember's API has stabilised we'll be seeing lots more high quality resources :)
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How A Young Community Of Entrepreneurs Is Rebuilding Detroit(fastcompany.com)
32 points by jongold 13y ago|29 comments

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