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by kwhinnery 4y ago
(disclaimer - I work for Retool) This take is correct IMO - it's only worth building a tool if it saves you more time than it takes to develop. This is why Retool exists - if building/changing an admin tool takes about as much tim
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by kwhinnery 4y ago
Curious to hear if folks have found other definitions for this class of software that are inclusive/descriptive
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What is Operations Software?(retool.com)
3 points by kwhinnery 4y ago|1 comments
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by kwhinnery 4y ago
Is the vision here that eventually I just have ngrok sit in front of my web app server(s) to handle authentication, rather than doing it at the app layer? And then ngrok in theory forwards on headers or whatever info I need for the authenti
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by kwhinnery 4y ago
Two fun facts delivering strong ROI for my visit to HN today, much appreciated!
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by kwhinnery 4y ago
+1 - I don’t think this would work on the wet, angry snow we get in Minnesota in the winter.
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Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end(techcrunch.com)
9 points by kwhinnery 4y ago|3 comments
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Early design decisions for TwilioQuest (desktop PC game to teach code/API usage)(twilio.com)
1 points by kwhinnery 7y ago|0 comments
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by kwhinnery 11y ago
I don't think Parse's lead in this space ever evaporated. They went out as the best-in-class MBaaS.
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by kwhinnery 11y ago
Honestly, I just hadn't used or explored Gradle in any great detail since returning to the Java world. Thanks for all the tips! Awesome resources.
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by kwhinnery 11y ago
My background, which informs my personal taste here: - Most recent 8 years, have used dynamic languages on the server (Node.js, Ruby, PHP, some Python) - Have dabbled in C# (ASP.NET MVC and WPF) - First 4 years professional experience as a
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by kwhinnery 11y ago
Twilio | Any City Worldwide | Remote/On-Site | Full Time Twilio is looking for a software engineer to join our Developer Education team. Together, our goal will be to develop the software and content necessary to craft incredible learn
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Child Processes, Streams, and Administering Minecraft Servers in Node.js(twilio.com)
3 points by kwhinnery 12y ago|0 comments
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by kwhinnery 12y ago
Slight addendum for your slight (and correct) corrections :) Both games had been in self-funded development a long time and had achieved some degree of critical acclaim before Kickstarter and signing on with WB, respectively. I might argue
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by kwhinnery 12y ago
I would resist the urge to give too much credit to luck and marketing when it comes to indie game success. Notable outliers like Bastion, Sword + Sworcery, and FTL were all stunning executions. The FTL team did almost no marketing, but rele
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by kwhinnery 13y ago
Amazing news for this team. Really excited to see what they build.
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by kwhinnery 13y ago
Parse doesn't provide a node.js environment. It's a custom V8 runtime environment, with commonjs and node-like modules. It's really neat, but it will be interesting to see how they maintain/extend a "node like" environment that's not real
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How-To: Mobile App Landing Page with Parse and Twilio SMS(twilio.com)
2 points by kwhinnery 14y ago|0 comments
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by kwhinnery 14y ago
We have a mobile web runtime platform also, though it is less mature than the native ones at this point. You can do a hybrid app approach with Titanium as well, if you like, and incorporate as few/many native UI components or APIs as you l
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by kwhinnery 14y ago
The core platform is free and open source. Paid subscriptions cover support and access to proprietary add-on modules. Pricing is unclear on the website, I'm sorry that it still has "contact sales" - but we're still finalizing pricing arou
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by kwhinnery 14y ago
+1 on checking out the showcase page. TripLingo has a nice Android app, I would check them out in particular. Yes, limitations in our abstraction layer is the biggest engineering challenge we face. That's true of any framework that create
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Comparing Titanium And PhoneGap(kevinwhinnery.com)
120 points by kwhinnery 14y ago|24 comments
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by kwhinnery 15y ago
A lot has changed in the 1.8 release, and I'm sorry to hear you ran into problems with earlier versions. Our abstraction layer can be a bit "magical" sometimes, and we need to do a better job communicating the tips and best practices that
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by kwhinnery 16y ago
I agree, we need to support unified projects.
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by kwhinnery 16y ago
(Disclosure: I work for Appcelerator) I think you should take a look at Titanium from Appcelerator ( http://www.appcelerator.com ). For data-driven applications or native apps that don't require advanced 3D animations, it does a very good j
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by kwhinnery 16y ago
Minnesota has several good, small software shops doing interesting work. Also plenty of active contributors (or founders) in prominent open source projects (JRuby guys live here, two Appcelerator employees, jQuery and Dojo committers and m