mbleigh

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by mbleigh 15y ago
Yes, absolutely. You can look at organizations across the world and they will tell you that diversity is a goal for its own sake. People who come from different places and backgrounds will approach problems with different perspectives. Thos
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The Why of Zero Tolerance(mbleigh.com)
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The Innovator and the Inhibitor(mbleigh.com)
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This is How I Want Social to Work(mbleigh.com)
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Confessions of a Neoholic(blog.opperator.com)
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Keeping Your Startup Blog Fresh(blog.opperator.com)
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by mbleigh 15y ago
True, their user data is their product, but the Forbes article wasn't talking about charging for Facebook Graph API access, it was talking about charging for Facebook-as-SSO-provider. Facebook Connect is the means by which Facebook can mine
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Charging for APIs...SRSLY?(blog.opperator.com)
3 points by mbleigh 15y ago|4 comments
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What's Wrong With Patents? It's Obvious.(intridea.com)
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Ruby Thankful: Give Thanks for Great Code(intridea.com)
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by mbleigh 15y ago
I create probably at least 3-4 apps a month and I use RailsWizard to do it because my needs often vary quite a bit (I almost always use RSpec, but ActiveRecord vs. MongoDB+MongoMapper, needing Redis, etc. change for each app). I don't think
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What if Rails isn't for beginners anymore?(intridea.com)
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by mbleigh 15y ago
Another reason I love SASS: since it compiles directly into CSS, if we all forget how to read SASS we can always just start modifying the resultant CSS instead. HAML on the other hand does not compile into ERB.
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by mbleigh 15y ago
I think you're right about the tone but there's a simple explanation for it: ERB is the default. Everyone has used it and no one (+/- a couple people) is already using HAML and needs someone to come along and say "Hey, have you heard about
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by mbleigh 15y ago
I may not have been very clear about this, but that's exactly my point. I've gotten grief for liking SASS but not using HAML and I think that the two solve two entirely different problems and lumping them together has never made sense. They
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by mbleigh 15y ago
Actually I wrote the article after attending the Red Dirt Ruby Conference and getting HAML evangelism left and right. :)
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by mbleigh 15y ago
To anyone who lands here: where does your company fall on the open source culture spectrum? Embraces it, uses it tentatively, curses it to the heavens? I'm curious to know.
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by mbleigh 16y ago
Proper in this case: OmniAuth abstracts away the actual OAuth process and, as is always proper, you should be testing your application code not your libraries.
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by mbleigh 16y ago
Should be a little clearer now. :)
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by mbleigh 16y ago
We'll be supporting other means of access in the near future, Google Apps is our target for the private beta.
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Show HN: SparkBin, idea gathering for companies (25 invites for Google Apps)(sparkbin.net)
27 points by mbleigh 16y ago|5 comments
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by mbleigh 16y ago
> Most interesting opinions come from experience. If the author has never built anything significant, perhaps they ought to stop and consider where their opinions come from. The problem is that 90% of open-source libraries ARE small-to-
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Is Copyleft Really Right for Open Source?(intridea.com)
10 points by mbleigh 16y ago|6 comments
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by mbleigh 16y ago
I am aware of SharedPreferences, and serialization is certainly an option, but ultimately these don't solve the main problem I've experienced. Serialization requires a lot of manual work and it may not scale particularly well for middle-wei
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by mbleigh 16y ago
How so? Web frameworks offer the luxury of interpreted, high level languages and frameworks that abstract away many of the implementation details and let a developer concentrate on the bigger picture. I think mobile will get there someday,
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by mbleigh 16y ago
I don't mean specifically Redis, the in-memory key-value store. Obviously mobile has huge restrictions on memory that would make this difficult and unwieldy. I mean more the approach of Redis than the implementation. Storing simple data str
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Using NPM with Heroku Node.js(intridea.com)
3 points by mbleigh 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbleigh 16y ago
I never meant to imply that I don't LIKE REST-like APIs on the web. Holy opposite day, Batman, I think they're fabulous! It's really just an exploration of the ways in which the popular definition of REST diverge from the actual definition,
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by mbleigh 16y ago
You should really take a look at Jeweler ( http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler ) and MG ( http://github.com/sr/mg ). They both make it extremely easy to maintain and publish gems to Gemcutter. Hoe was necessary back when RubyForge wa
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by mbleigh 16y ago
Open Graph is based on RDFa and is a "standard" by which website owners can use URIs to represent a number of people, places, things and concepts. I admit that I tossed the term semantic web out there without fastidiously studying the accep

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