matthewcford

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by matthewcford 17y ago
http://screenr.com/
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For me it's writing blog posts: http://matthewcford.com/coders-block
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Ask HN: Overcoming coder's block?
11 points by matthewcford 17y ago|16 comments
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by matthewcford 17y ago
Seems that it's jackson fish market 'experience' http://www.jacksonfish.com/astorybeforebed and quite frankly everything these guys have done has been excellent. Tip my hat to these guys.
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Well EY launched https://www.railsdevelopment.com/ - only Rails development specific.
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Publishers seem to encourage long books, but I doubt you'd need to produce something so long. This is one of the reasons why I like PeepCode they don't encourage padding to fill a page count.
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There was talk of rewriting it for Rails 3, but as it was pretty much vaporware at the time and I had enough of the extremely tight deadlines by that point, the decision to stop was mutual. My comment wasn't against Apress for canceling the
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by matthewcford 17y ago
I was burned out (from writing) after almost completing the beginning Merb book, which Apress cancelled after the Rails/Merb merger. I must admit if I were to write a book again, it wouldn't be with Apress. I'd be knocking on PragProg or Pe
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The twitter app I built http://tweetarium.com would benefit from something like this. With regards to twitter pulling the plug on third parities, while it is a worry this could happen, it's risk you factor when building on any platform.
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by matthewcford 17y ago
perhaps, but it's about time they dumped M$ considering they acquired lotus in 1995!
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Sinatra is a great micro framework for when you don't need the whole Rails stack, I used it for building http://tweetarium.com along with tokyo cabinet.
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That would kill the majority of open source projects hosted on github, free hosting for public repos is one of the reasons it's so great. I'm willing to pay for private repos, but if I had to pay for my public ones too, I'd just not host th
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by matthewcford 17y ago
It's the first time I signed a petition on number10.gov.uk. I wasn't sure if anything would come of it, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it worked.
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surely you mean _why forks day.
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5 Questions you need to be able to answer as a start-up(post.ly)
1 points by matthewcford 17y ago|0 comments
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no
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> I've been working my way through SICP and I've recently learned the basics of Python, but I don't know if I can learn everything I need to know through self-study The majority of what you need to know in order to run a startup isn't t
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The best bit is that people tend to also optimize for maximum distance apart as well as a good position